Principals of Government
Any sizable group of people who are united by common bonds of race, language, custom, tradition, and sometimes religion.
Nation
Four essential functions of a state.
population, territory, sovereignty, and government.
gives all key powers to the national or central government.
Unitary System of Government
defined as the study of human efforts to satisfy seemingly unlimited wants through the use of limited resources.
Economics
Governments undertake projects, such as building sewer systems, that individuals could not or would not do on their own.
Providing Public Services
A political community that occupies a definite territory and has an organized government with the power to make and enforce laws without approval from any higher authority.
A State
Three ways boundaries of a state or nation can change.
Wars, purchases, and negotiations.
divides the powers of government between the national government and state governments.
Federal System of Government
This system is usually referred to as free enterprise
Capitalism
a government in which a constitution has authority to place clearly recognized limits on the powers of those who govern.
Constitutional Government
The state has supreme and absolute authority within its boundaries.
Sovereignty
Protecting a nation against foreign powers and terrorists.
Providing National Security.
Oldest Constitution in the World.
American Constitution
Created the concept of laissez-faire economics.
Adam Smith
the effort to control or influence the conduct and policies of a government.
Politics
The institution through which the state maintains social order provides public services and enforces decisions that are binding on all people living within the state.
Government
One of the first students of Government.
Aristotle
involves the interpretation and application of the constitution.
Constitutional Law
Created the idea of Communism.
Karl Marx
decisions are made at the upper levels of government and handed down to managers.
Command Economy
A plan that provides the rules for government.
Constitution
Four major purposes of government.
1) to maintain social order
2) to provide public services
3) to provide for national security and a common defense
4) to provide for and control the economic system.
constitutions have a statement that sets forth the goals and purposes to be served by the government.
Preamble
All economic systems must make three major economic decisions:
1.What and how much should be produced.
2.How goods and services should be produced.
3.Who gets the goods and services that are produced.
government planners decide how much to produce, what to produce, and how to distribute the goods and services.
Communism