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• Unitary Government • When the Central Government holds the power
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• Authoritarian Government
• A Government where power is NOT limited
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• Democracy • A Government where people hold the power through voting
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• 3 Economic Questions
• What to Produce?• How to Produce?• For Whom to
Produce?
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• Anarchy • Chaos or lack of Government
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• 4 types of economies – Market – Command – Traditional – Mixed Market
• Market– Buys and sellers have
power with no gov’t regulations
• Command – Gov’t controlled
• Traditional – Values the past
• Mixed – Aspects of each with
gov’t regulations
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• Monarchy • When a King or Queen has the power
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• Oligarchy • When a few people hold the power
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• Dictatorship • When one person holds all the power and controls all aspects of a person life. Usually rights are denied to citizens
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• Democracies – Direct – Representative
• Direct – When people vote for
every issue
• Representative – When people vote for
people to make their decisions for them
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• Opportunity Cost • What you give up when a decision is made.
• = Opportunity Lost
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• Purposes of Gov’t • E• S• P• N
• E – Economic decisions – Ex: taxes, printing money
• S – Social Order – Ex: police officers
• P- Public Services – Ex: Schools, Trash
Collection
• N- National Security – Ex: Military
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• Confederacy • When states hold the power
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• Federalism • When Local, State, & National Governments share power
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• Preamble of the Constitution
• Introduction to the Constitution that states its goals
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• Due Process • Your rights when you get arrested and go to court
• Example: trial by jury, lawyer.
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• 1st Amendment – R– A– P– P– S
– Religion – Assembly – Petition – Press– Speech
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• Limits of 1st amendment
• Can not threaten people or put people in danger
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• Problems with Articles of Confederation
• Too weak • No central
Government
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• Powers – Expressed/Delegated
– Implied
– Denied
– Inherent
– Written in Constitution
– Not written
– Things Gov’t can not do
– Things Gov’t can do because they are a Gov’t
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• Federalism
• Reserved Powers
• Concurrent Powers
• When National, States, & Local Gov’t work together
• Powers saved for only the States
• Powers that National & State Gov’t have at the same time
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• Elastic Clause
• Supremacy Clause
• Allows congress to stretch Constitution
• Gives us out Implied Powers
• The National Gov’t has power over the States
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• Protests– Boycott
– Picket
– Petition
– Stop buying a product
– Stand outside a business or building with signs as a group
– A letter expressing your opinion with peoples signatures
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• What is an Amendment?
• A Change to the Constitution
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• What are the 1st Ten amendments called?
• Bill of Rights
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You need to study these note cards and
your old ones!!!Get with a partner and
start to quiz each other using both sets
of cards!!!