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What do you think it means to be a citizen? What do citizens expect from their
government? In return, what should citizens do for their government? Are there benefits
to being a citizen?
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What is Civics?
-Civics
-Study of Citizenship and
Government
• Rights and duties of citizenship
-Citizen
1. Owe loyalty to government
2. Expect protection from The White House2. Expect protection from
government
3. Accept government authority
-Government: ruling authority for a
group of people
The White House
The U.S. Capitol Building
The Common Good
--The ultimate role of the
government is to do the
greatest good to the
greatest number of
people without harming
others
How do these two pictures represent the government’s role in providing for the “common
good”?
Why We Need Gov’t?
-Make laws
• Provide security, guide the
community
-Keep Order
-Provide Services-Provide Services
-prevent anarchy
-the absence of any form of
government
Water Treatment
Plant
Levels of Government
-National
• President, U.S. Congress,
Supreme Court
-State
• Governor, General Assembly,
State Courts
-Local-Local
County
• School board
City
• City council
Democracy
-republics-- rule by the consent of
the people
• Other people represent you
-democracy
-direct democracy-a form of
government where each citizens
has an actual say in the affairs
of government
• Ex: town meeting
-representative democracy-a
form of government where
citizens elect representatives to
make decisions for them
• Ex: Student council
Why is democracy a challenge?
Monarchy
-monarchy
-form of government led by
a king or a queen
-absolute monarchy
• King/Queen has all the
powerpower
-limited monarchy
• King/Queen shares power
with the people
The Queen of England, Elizabeth II, is a limited monarch who must share
her power with England’s representative body, the Parliament.
Socialist
-socialist
Type of government where
individuals and government
share ownership in major
businesses and government
takes on a greater role in
citizen’s lives.
Communist
-communist
Type of government where the
government owns and
controls all aspects of life for
its citizens
Authoritarian
-dictatorship-Type of
government that is usually
controlled by one person
who allows very little
freedom or opposition
-totalitarianism-Form of
government where little government where little
freedom or opposition is
allowed
-oligarchy-Government that is
ruled by a small group of
people