1. Forms of Government
Chapter 1 Lesson 4

2. The Importance of Government
Keep Order and Provide Security
Laws help resolve or find a solution to problems
Enforce laws they make
Need for security- protections from attacks
Provide Services
Libraries, Schools, Hospitals, and Parks
Build and repair streets and bridges
Collect garbage and deliver the mail
Local Govt (police/fire departments)
State (license drivers and doctors) (food, monetary support, housing, healthcare, and special programs for people with disabilities
Federal (good, medicines, and products are safe)
Guide the Community
Public policy

3. Levels of Government Federal or National State Local
Highest authority over citizens
Makes and enforces laws for the entire country
Basic rules for Citizenship
State
Marriage laws, make rules for schooling, and hold elections
Manage public health and safety
Build roads and bridges
Local
Schools, police and fire departments, emergency medical services, and local courts
Outdoor lighting and removing snow from the streets

4. Exit Slip- Tuesday
What would happen if there was no government in the United States?
What does the U.S. government and local government make possible for the people?

5. Types of Government Democratic Representative Democracy (USA)
Citizens choose a group of people to represent them, make laws, and govern on their behalf
Republic
Role in choosing the person to who will be the head of the state (President)
Constitutional Monarchy
Hereditary ruler (King/Queen)
Power is limited by country’s constitution
Prime Minister heads the government
*Majority Rule

6. Types of Government Authoritarian
Power is held by a person or a group not accountable to the people
Monarchy (Ex King Saudi Arabia- supposed to follow Islamic law)
Dictatorship( Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Cuba, N. Korea, and Myanmar)
Totalitarian rule- government controls all aspects of life
Take away individual freedom– Ideology
controls the media and uses scare tactics
Socialism
Society controls all aspects of the economy
Government instead of private owner decides what items the industries produce and what jobs workers will have

8. Kim Jong-un

9. Castro

10. U Ne Win

11. Exit Slip- Wednesday
What is the difference between a democratic government and an authoritarian government?
How would you feel if we were a dictatorship (examples of how it would effect you)