What is Government?
Representive Government
Parts of the Government
Laws
Vocabulary
100
How would you describe a community without laws and a government?
What is unsafe, unhappy, a bad place to live in, a place with a lot of arguments, a place with a lot of fights, a place with a lot of mad people?
100
Our government is a republic. Who holds the power in a republic?
What is the people?
100
This number is the total branches (or rings) in the government.
What is the number 3?
100
makes the laws
What is city council?
100
________what rules are called in a community, state, or country
What are laws?
200
Describe 3 purposes of government.
What is 1. To keep people safe 2. To provide services 3. To make laws 4. To look out for the Common good 5. To protect individual rights 6. To solve problems
200
What does representative government mean?
What is the people elect leaders to make laws and decisions for them.
200
These are the names of the 3 parts of local (Dearborn) government.
What are Major, City Council and Court?
200
to keep people safe is the reason we have these.
Why do we have laws?
200
________things that a community government does for people living in a community
What are Community services?
300
Tell 3 ways the government of Michigan carries out their purpose
What is 1. State police, 2. State parks, teachers, libraries 3. State laws about polution, safety, education
300
Who represents you in our state government?
What is a Representative and a Senator?
300
a group of people who make the laws in a community
What is the council?
300
to protect the common good is why we have speeding laws.
Why do we have laws to limit speeding?
300
_________the leader in a community who enforces the laws
What is the mayor?
400
Use the words in the Word Bank to fill in the blanks in this sentences: 1. _______________________ is a system of __________ and leaders that helps keep people _______ and protects their individual ______________. WORD BANK - good, laws, government, safe , rights, individual
What is government, laws, safe, rights?
400
What happens if the representatives chosen by people don’t do a good job?
What is the people don’t vote for them again?
400
the three different sections of government
What are the 3 branches of government?
400
This is why laws are so important in a community
What is to keep people safe?
400
_______a group of people who make the laws in a community
What is council?
500
Governments look out for the common _______________ and try to protect _____________________ rights. WORD BANK - good, laws, government, safe , rights, individual
What is good, individual?
500
Why would it be important to know the names of the people who represent you in our state government in Lansing? Give at least one reason.
What is: •You need to know the names so you can write or call them if you have a complaint. •You need to know the names so you can write or call them if you have an idea for the government. •You need to know the names so you can follow what they are doing in state government.
500
the leader in a community who enforces the laws
What is the major?
500
This is what a court does when it interprets a law.
What is it decides what a law means?
500
______the branch of government that interprets laws and decides the punishment for breaking laws
What is the court?
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