1. People and Government: 2
Objectives
-TSW understand the roles served by government.
-TWS understand how authority is divided within
government.

2. The Purposes of Government
**Governments must have authority, power, legitimacy, and
coercive force.
Maintaining Social Order
-ways to resolve conflicts
-Pass laws, set up courts, employ police, build prisons,
issue money, enforce legal contracts, make traffic regulations,
etc.
-must limit what an individual can do
-effective gov’t allows:
-planning for future
-getting an education
-raising a family

3. 2. Provide Public Services
-essential services to promote general welfare that would be
difficult or impractical for individuals to provide themselves.
-Building of sewers, roads, schools
-Laws on public health, safety, working conditions
-Policies regarding transportation, communications, education

4. Providing National Security
-protect against attack, invasion, terrorism
-Maintains well-trained, well-equipped military force.
-Watch for internal threats such as treason or rebellion.
-Establish intelligence gathering agencies.
-Negotiate agreements, and treaties with foreign nations to
protect national security
-has power to limit relations between our states and other
nations.

5. 4. Making Economic Decisions
-reducing gap between rich and poor
-aid to other nations - -Ex. Marshal Plan after WWII
-national currency
-controlling inflation
-subsidies and tax breaks
-regulating natural resources
-encouraging trade with other nations