Human Nature, Citizenship and Leadership Styles
A protest in a major intersection by small business owners to get the Canadian Government to provide relief for them in the face of US tariffs is an example of ____________.
What is Active Citizenship?
A government in which all citizens have an equal vote on every issue.
What is Direct Democracy?
The representative of the monarchy in Canadian government.
Who is the Governor General?
Your representative (and those who live in your area) in the Federal Government.
What is a Member of Parliament?
Issues related to money, resources and how governments manage the economy.
Economic Issues
What is shared and beneficial for all or most members of a given community. This is often influenced by people's values and morals.
What is the Common Good?
Canada follows these two main styles of government.
What is representative democracy and constitutional monarchy?
The part of the government that upholds, interprets and enforces laws.
What is the Judicial Branch?
Three Levels of Government
What are Municipal, Federal and Provincial?
Focus on people’s rights, freedoms, values, and how we live together in society.
Social Issues
A style of leadership where all members must agree on a decision.
What is Consensus-based leadership?
The Vatican, Saudi Arabia and Iran share this style of government.
What is a theocracy?
This group of people is selected by the Prime Minister. Each one is responsible for a Government Department (sometimes multiple). Most bills that get debated in the House of Commons usually come from this group.
What is a Cabinet?
After the House of Commons approves a bill, it goes to the _____________.
What is the Senate?
Someone who believes in expanded rights and collective responsibility would be ___________ on social issues.
What is progressive?
A style of leadership where Leaders/Government leaves people alone and lets them do as they please, as long as they respect the personal and property rights of others
What is Laissez-Faire style leadership?
A government in which power is in the hands of a few people or groups.
What is an oligarchy?
This branch of government has the power to enact, amend or repeal laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This level of government is responsible for police and animal control.
Municipal
This political party would be considered to left on the political spectrum.
New Democratic Party
Many political thinkers discussed the relationship between the government (or king) and citizens in this way. What the relationship should be depended on the thinker's theory of human nature.
What is a social contract?
Two styles of government, although very different, have in common the complete control of citizens by the state and (often) brutal violence and repression.
What are Fascism and Communism?
The two groups involved in the passing of a bill.
What is the House of Commons and Senate?
The next step after a Cabinet proposes a bill (Be specific).
House of Commons does a first or second reading of the bill.
Believing in lower taxes and less government intervention would make you _____________ on economic issues?
What is right?