1. Chapter 2
Forms of Government

2. Types of Government

3. Types of Government
Three ways to classify governments: 1. Systems of government 2. Relationship between levels of government 3. Methods of selecting the executive

4. Systems of Government
Monarchy
Dictatorship
Anarchy
Popular government

5. Dictatorship
In a dictatorship, the government acts without the consent of the people.
Totalitarianism
Autocracy
Oligarchy

6. Anarchy An absence of government
Because of human depravity, anarchy, instead of leading to maximum liberty, leads to a state of lawlessness.
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

7. Popular Governments
Power resides in the people.
Direct democracy

8. Popular Governments
Indirect democracy – people choose their peers represent them.
Republic – “a state in which the supreme power rests in the people and their elected representatives or officers.

9. Types of Government
Three ways to classify governments: 1. Systems of government 2. Relationship between levels of government

10. Relationship Between Levels of Government
Unitary
Federal
Confederate

11. Examples: Great Britain, Japan, France, Israel
Unitary
All power from the people (unlike dictatorship)
Power resides in central government
Local units may help administer government.
Examples: Great Britain, Japan, France, Israel

12. Relationship Between Levels of Government
Federal Governments – Federalism
Examples: United States, Brazil, India

13. Relationship Between Levels of Government
Confederate Governments
Examples: Articles of Confederation, Confederate States of America, European Union (EU)

14. Types of Government
Three ways to classify governments: 1. Systems of government 2. Relationship between levels of government 3. Methods of selecting the executive

15. Methods of Selecting the Executive
Presidential System – people directly elect the president.
Question: Do the people directly elect the President of the United States?
Answer: No. The Electoral College elects the president.

16. Methods of Selecting the Executive
Parliamentary System
People elect their representatives to Parliament.
Candidate of the party with the most votes in each district wins.
The majority party in the parliament chooses the executive (prime minister).
Examples: Great Britain, France, Japan, Indonesia
Systems of Government: Popular (Direct, Indirect – Republic),

17. Which system is better: Presidential or Parliamentary?

18. American Government

19. Levels of American Government
National
State
Local

20. National Government
The U.S. Constitution LIMITS the power of the national government by allowing it to have certain DELEGATED POWERS.

21. National Government
Executive
Judicial
Legislative

22. Legislative Branch Makes the laws
Closest ties to the people: directly elected
Two houses
House of Representatives
Senate

23. Executive Branch Enforces the laws President Vice President Advisors
EOP
Cabinet

24. Judicial Branch Interprets the laws
Are the laws passed by Congress and the states consistent with the Constitution?
Supreme Court
Lower Courts

25. State Government Fifty (50) states
States keep all power not delegated to the national government (RESERVED POWERS) or prohibited to the states by the Constitution (PROHIBITED POWERS).
States all have their own constitutions.

26. State Government Reserved Powers– 10th Amendment
Police, educate, land-use laws, licensing, etc.
Prohibited Powers – Keeps certain powers in the hands of the national government.
Coin money, make treaties, import/export taxes, raise a military force in peacetime, etc.

27. Review Quiz What are the levels of U.S. government?
What are the branches of U.S. government?
What is the function of the legislative branch?
What is the function of the executive branch?
What is the function of the judicial branch?

28. Answers 1. national, state, local 2. legislative, executive, judicial
3. make laws
4. enforce the laws
5. interpret the laws