Unit 1: What is government?  Write down five ways government could help the people on this island.

Unit 1: What is government?  What is government? Government is the structure of decision makers who make society’s rules about who gets what, when and how Government’s decision makers have the power and authority to make the rules and enforce them

Unit 1: What is government?  Three ways governments start… Evolutionary theory says that governments developed gradually, step- by-step starting with families, then clans, then tribes, then city states and finally states or nations Force theory says that strong persons or groups conquered territories and made them submit to their will

Unit 1: What is government?  Three ways governments start… Social Contract theory says that people voluntarily agree with each other to create a government to give that government enough power to secure and protect (natural right, divine right and philosophers will be discussed later)

Unit 1: What is government?  What is politics and how is it related to government? Government makes decisions that affect how people live But, people naturally disagree over what those decisions should be based on their beliefs, values and ideas about what society’s priorities should be

Unit 1: What is government?  What is politics and how is it related to government? These disagreements lead to social conflict Therefore, politics can be defined as a way to resolve the social conflict over “who gets what, when and how” in our society