Types of Government
One person holds all of the power in government
Dictatorship
Government run by religion or controlled by religious leaders
Theocracy
Government where the people have the power
Democracy
Says that God created the state and gave those of royal birth a “divine right” to rule. The people were bound to obey their ruler as they would obey God. Opposition to the “divine right of kings” was both a crime and a sin.
Divine Right Theory
Government where the state controls all aspects of a person's life
Authoritarianism
Power is shared between central and local governments
Federal System
Union of independent states with a very weak central government
Confederacy
Population: people to live there
Territory: a place to live
Sovereignty: absolute power within its own territory
Government: they must be politically organized
The 4 characteristics of a state
Big Idea: All human beings have natural rights
John Locke
What do the following things describe?
Providing leadership
Providing Public Services
Maintaining Order
Providing National Security
Purposes of Government
A small group of people hold the power in a government.
Government ruled by a king, queen, or emperor.
Monarchy
An ethnic term referring to races or other large groups of people. They can be united by race, religion, language or other factors that the people think unite them.
Nation
Name this Right articulate by John Locke: If the government does not protect those rights, the people have the right to overthrow the government.
The Right to Revolution
In a ________ democracy, people vote directly on issues.
Direct Democracy
Strong central government and weak local governments
Unitary system
A body of people, living in a defined territory, organized politically (meaning that they have a government), and with the power to make and enforce law.
State
Land = Wealth = ?
Power
In a society, it is the ______________ purpose to protect those rights
government’s
Big idea: there should be 3 branches of government
Montesquieu
People elect their legislature and the legislature elects the chief executive.
Parliamentary system.
An institution through which leaders exercise powers to make and enforce laws affecting the people under its control.
Government
Says that states exist to serve their people. If people didn't have government, they would live in a “state of nature” where life would be complicated, nasty, horrible, and short.
Social Contract Theory
Says that governments evolved from families. The heads of these families became the government. When these families settled in one territory and claimed it as their own, they became a sovereign state.
Evolutionary Theory
An individual or group claimed control over a territory and forced the population to submit. In this way, the state became sovereign, and those in control formed a government.
Force Theory