Government
A system of managing a community or nation and the leaders who control that system.
What is Government?
Printing of money.
What are delegated powers?
Originally a social network for Harvard students
What is Facebook?
Can you reach a conclusion?
Can you take an action?
Can you make a judgment?
Should you share this information?
What is actionable information?
The Chief Executive of the United States Government.
What is the President?
Citizens elect several representatives who meet as a lawmaking body.
What is an indirect democracy?
Education
What are reserved powers?
I was an entrepreneur who took an old wine press and made it into a printing press with movable type and started the first information revolution
What is Gutenberg?
The division of government responsibilities into distinct branches to limit any one branch from exercising the core functions of another.
What is the separation of powers?
270
What is the number of electoral votes needed to win the presidential general election?
Each branch of government can check the power of the other branches of government.
What are checks and balances?
Taxation
What are concurrent powers?
This technology makes people believe it is someone saying something.
What is a deep fake?
The government is limited in the exercise of its delegated powers.
What is a Limited Government?
House of Representatives and the Senate
What is Congress?
Land with definite boundaries.
A common language, culture, and customs.
A system of government.
Sovereignty.
What is a nation?
Citizens give their power to elected representatives based on knowledge learned from a free press.
What is popular sovereignty?
The original name for the internet?
What is the Arpanet?
News outlet publishing a story before confirming the truth of the story.
What is Speed vs. Accuracy?
The first presidential candidate to use social media to help get elected to the presidency.
Who is President Obama?
United States Constitution
What is the supreme law of the land?
Elected by the citizens
Head of State
Only answers to the Citizens
Has term limits
What is a Presidential Democracy?
The average American sees and hears 100,000 words per day outside work and looks at more than 250 links per day on various social media platforms.
What is information overload?
1/20/2025
What is Inauguration Day?
One electoral college vote per senator, plus the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives.
What is the formula for deciding the number of electoral votes each state will receive?