Given By State
- Most of the federal government domestic services
- Welfare public
- Public housing
- Medicaid
- State and government community directly impact your lives
- rising public expectations
- better roads/ highways
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- Political dictionary
What is government?
- Society makes and enforces public policy
Public policy
- Taxation, defense, education, crime
- Health care
- Domestic services
3.Kinds of government power
1. Legislature = make laws
2. Executive = executive, enforce, and administration
3. Judicial = Interpret laws to determine their meanings
- Powers are outlined in the constitution
How power could be held
- Dictatorship
Single person or small group
Rulers are not held responsible
- Democracy
Power rests in the majority
- Aristotle’s and Plato’s version or meaning or politics
State Government
- started over time to help collect taxes
- example of state government
- in most cases a state is known as a nation
- What does homogeneous mean?
- States are sovereign
- Supreme and absolute power
Section 2
- Three classification that a government takes
- who can participate
- geographic distribution
- relationship between legislation and execution
Democracy
1. Government power rests in he people
- Government are the people, by the people, for the people
Direct democracy = pure democracy will of the people is made law directly by the people
- Mass meetings (small communities)
- Does not exist at the national level
Indirect democracy
- Representative democracy
Dictatorship
- Those who rule can not be held responsible to the will of the people
- Autocracy
- Single person holds unlimited political power
- Oligarchy
- small group/ elite
All dictatorships are authoritarian
- Those In power hold absolute and unchallenged authority over the people
- Modern people are to talitarian
Control every aspect of life
Ex: Nazi Germany, Soviet Union
Where is the power located?
- Unitary government
- Controlled government, all powers held by the government
- Single central agencies
- Great Britain Unitary and democratic
- Creates local units or government for its own convenience
- All power is in the central government
Federal Government
- Power divided between the central and several local governments
- U.S. Government has powers and state has power
State
1. Body of people living in a defines community
- Has the power to make and enforce laws without the consent or any higher authority.
- form a more perfect union
- Establish justice
- Insure domestic tranquility
- Provide a common defense
Dictators
1. Identified as either Autocracies and Oligarchies
a. Autocracy = single person holds power
b. Oligarchy = small, self- appointed elite
Where is the power in the government located?
1. Unitary government
a. centralized government
- Single centralized agency
a. creates local units
1. Only has power given by the centralized government
2. most governments in the world are centralized
a. Great Britain
- Federal government
a. Division Power
1. divided between a central and local governments
2. Both levels of government act directly on the people through their own sets of laws, officials, and agencies
a. U.S. National government has power along with the 50 states
4. Confederate government
1. Alliance or independent states
2. Confederate government handles only those matters that member states assign to it
Ex.: European Union