1. Agenda Agenda Friday 8/11/17
Bell work: Add to Bell work for this week and turn in after we complete exit ticket. 5 points for each bell work and exit ticket
How does government impact your daily life?
Notebook Check 20 points and set up
Front -- Bell Work
Middle – Notes
Back - Graded Work
Class notes and discussion: Government and State
(COMPLETE GUIDED NOTES AS WE GO THROUGH DISCUSSION)
Review today’s materials/ Closure/Complete Exit Ticket (What did you learn today?)
REMINDER: Parent Signature sheets due Monday, August 14th 20 points

2. Government and the State

3. Objectives What is government and its purpose?
How did governments come about?

4. State Standards
GC.4 Explain how the Constitution reflects a balance between the promotion of the public good and the protection of individual rights.
GC.3 Describe the purposes and functions of government as outlined in the Preamble to the Constitution and demonstrate an understanding of current application of those purposes and functions by identifying current government actions related to each of the six purposes.

5. A. What is government?
Government is the institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies (goals that the government pursues).
Constitution is the body of fundamental laws setting out the principles of a government.

6. Three Basic Powers Every government holds 3 basic powers:
Legislative: make laws (Congress)
Executive: execute/enforce laws (President)
3. Judicial: interpret laws (Supreme Court)

8. B. The State Population Territory State Government Sovereignty
Every state in the world has four characteristics:
There are more than 200 states in the world today.
Population
Territory
Sovereignty
Government
State

9. Keep in mind!
The 50 States within the United States are not sovereign !

10. Question
Since the United States is sovereign, but Tennessee is not. Do you think that our State should be sovereign? Why or why not?

11. Government vs. State A government is a element of the State
What is the difference between a government and a state?
A government is a element of the State
A State is more or less permanent while a government is temporary and changes frequently.

12. Agenda Government and State – Finish discussion
Bell work: Define the Work “Social” and “Contract” and how those two words could work together?
Finish and review 4 Origins of a state
Assign Check and Balance Partners for the semester: SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Partner Work: Use Textbook and Provides Resource Readings complete the following chart. You will only have to complete on section and we will share out.
Government and State – Finish discussion
(15 minutes Group work Social Contract Theory)Give you all notes

13. Objectives What is government and its purpose?
How did governments come about?

14. State Standards
GC.4 Explain how the Constitution reflects a balance between the promotion of the public good and the protection of individual rights.
GC.3 Describe the purposes and functions of government as outlined in the Preamble to the Constitution and demonstrate an understanding of current application of those purposes and functions by identifying current government actions related to each of the six purposes.

15. C. Origin of the state
Four major theories have emerged as the most widely accepted explanations for the origin of the state:
Force Theory
Evolutionary Theory
Divine Right Theory
Social Contract Theory

16. 1. Force Theory
State began when a small group took over an area and forced others to follow their rules

17. 2. Evolutionary Theory The State Tribe Clan Family
State developed out of the family with the head of household being the government.
Family
Clan
Tribe
The State

18. 3. Divine Theory
State created by God who gives the ruler the right to rule.
Citizens have to obey ruler because he has "divine right" to govern
Video Versailles – watch clip

19. 4. Social Contract Theory
State began when people agreed to give up some power and rights to form a government in exchange for protection and services.
Introduced by Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau
VOLUNTARY

20. Questions
Which theory of the origin of the state do you think makes the most sense? Explain.
Which theory does apply best to the United States? Why?

21. Back to Our Objectives for the Day
What is government and its purpose?
An institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies (goals that the government pursues).
How did governments come about?
Force Theory
Evolutionary Theory
Divine Right Theory
Social Contract Theory

22. Agenda
Bell work – 1st three in basket 15 points (review all notes to this point!!!!
Social contract (Reading) Think
Social Contract (Pair) Think some more
Put in chart on board (Share with class and discuss)
What did you learn – Practice quiz over introductory notes.

23. Agenda NO Bell work: Pass back Purposes of Government
Complete Notes Outline (Government and the State)
Preamble video
Break it down
Short answer questions and discussion
Quick Review all notes government and State
Open note Quiz:
Start Forms of Government

24. Alexis de Tou

25. IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America “When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

26. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. . .”

27. D. The Purpose of Government
The Preamble of the Constitution describes 6 purposes for the American government:
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28. School House Rock Preamble

29. Preamble to the U.S. Constitution
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, 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. 1 2 3 4 5 6

30. Six Purposes of the American government
Preamble
Form a more perfect Union
Establish justice
Insure domestic tranquility
Provide for the common defense
Promote the general welfare
Secure the blessings of liberty

31. Questions
Are each statement still relevant today? Identifying current government actions related to each of the six purposes.
Which purpose of government do you consider most important? Why?

32. Review 3 branches of gov’t and their functions
4 characteristics of state
Sovereignty
Evolutionary theory
Divine theory
Social contract theory
6 purposes of government (be familiar)
Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu (matching)

33. Quiz today! Review the following terms/concepts:
3 branches of gov’t and their functions
4 characteristics of state
Sovereignty
Evolutionary theory
Divine theory
Social contract theory
6 purposes of government (be familiar)
Parliamentary vs. presidential gov’t
Dictatorship
Autocracy vs. oligarchy
Direct vs. indirect democracy
Federal vs. unitary government
Classification of U.S. gov’t
Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu (matching)