Презентация на тему Magruder’s American Government. Principles of Government

Principles of Government
SECTION 1 Government and the State
SECTION 2 Forms of

Government
SECTION 3 Basic Concepts of Democracy

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O N 1 Government and the State
How is government defined?
What

are the basic powers that every government holds?
What are the four defining characteristics of the state?
How have we attempted to explain the origin of the state?
What is the purpose of government in the United States and other countries?

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institution through which a society makes and enforces its

public policies.

defined as having these four characteristics:

states that one person or a small group took

control of an area and forced all within it to submit to that person’s or group’s rule.
The Evolutionary Theory
The evolutionary theory argues that the state evolved naturally out of the early family.
The Divine Right Theory
The theory of divine right holds that God created the state and that God gives those of royal birth a “divine right” to rule.
The Social Contract Theory
The social contract theory argues that the state arose out of a voluntary act of free people.

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are described in the Preamble of the Constitution of

the United States:

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

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through which a society makes and enforces its public

policies.
(b) a collection of people.
(c) always democratic.
(d) the organization representing farms and industries.

2. A state has the following four characteristics:
(a) population, territory, sovereignty, and government.
(b) sovereignty, a perfect union, welfare, and territory.
(c) people, places, force, and divine right.
(d) justice, defense, liberty, and domestic tranquility.

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of Government
How can we classify governments?
How are systems

of government defined in terms of who can participate?
How is power distributed within a state?
How are governments defined by the relationship between the legislative and executive branches?

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by three different standards:
(1) Who can participate in the

governing process.
(2) The geographic distribution of the governmental power within the state.
(3) The relationship between the legislative (lawmaking) and the executive (law-executing) branches of the government.

In a democracy, supreme political authority rests with the

people.
A direct democracy exists where the will of the people is translated into law directly by the people themselves.
In an indirect democracy, a small group of persons, chosen by the people to act as their representatives, expresses the popular will.

Dictatorship
A dictatorship exists where those who rule cannot be held responsible to the will of the people.
An autocracy is a government in which a single person holds unlimited political power.
An oligarchy is a government in which the power to rule is held by a small, usually self-appointed elite.

unitary government has all powers held by a single,

central agency.

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Confederate Government
A confederation is an alliance of independent states.

Federal Government
A federal government is one in which the powers of government are divided between a central government and several local governments.
An authority superior to both the central and local governments makes this division of power on a geographic basis.

Branches
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states form an alliance.
(b) supreme political authority rests with

the people.
(c) those who rule cannot be held responsible to the will of the people.
(d) the rule by a few, select individuals regulates the will of the people.

2. The United States government has the following characteristics:
(a) confederate, parliamentary, and dictatorship.
(b) unitary, presidential, and democracy.
(c) federal, presidential, and democracy.
(d) unitary, parliamentary, and dictatorship.

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O N 3 Basic Concepts of Democracy
What are the foundations

of democracy?
What are the connections between democracy and the free enterprise system?
How has the Internet affected democracy?

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rests on these basic notions:
(1) A recognition of the

fundamental worth and dignity of every person;
(2) A respect for the equality of all persons;
(3) A faith in majority rule and an insistence upon minority rights;
(4) An acceptance of the necessity of compromise; and
(5) An insistence upon the widest possible degree of individual freedom.

System
The free enterprise system is an economic system characterized

by private or corporate ownership of capital goods; investments that are determined by private decision rather than by state control; and determined in a free market.
Decisions in a free enterprise system are determined by the law of supply and demand.
An economy in which private enterprise exists in combination with a considerable amount of government regulation and promotion is called a mixed economy.

that the people be widely informed about their government.
Theoretically,

the Internet makes knowledgeable participation in democratic process easier than ever before.
However, all data on the World Wide Web is not necessarily true, and the long-term effects of the Internet on democracy has yet to be determined.