WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF GOVERNMENT BTEOTLIWBAT Understand

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF GOVERNMENT? BTEOTLIWBAT: Understand the purpose of government by completing a chart and interacting with government terms.

Get out your Notebook! • If you don’t have a notebook, see me! OR • Do Assignments on paper and you will have to staple/tape/glue them into your notebook.

Create A Cover for your notebook! • Front Cover • (extra credit ) • Theme: Power! • Be creative!!

Inside Front Cover • Glue or Tape Notebook Directions • Page 1 • Unit 1: Foundations of Government • Unit 1 Table of Contents 1

Channel 1 • Page 2 • Watch Channel 1 and respond to one of the stories, following the template on the inside of your front cover

Pair Share • What are 4 purposes of government?

Maintaining Social Order – How people live together. Example: Respecting peoples property. Why is this important? - Some may take unfair advantage of others - Arguments/Disagreements - Crime How does the Government Maintain Social Order? - Make and enforce laws - Can require people to do things they might not volunteer for (pay taxes) - Provides structures to courts to help solve disagreements - Government contains conflicts by placing limits on what individuals are permitted to do. pg 2

Provide Public Services Public Service - The government helps the citizens. Example: Police are a public service provided from the government. Why is this important? - To make community life possible - Promote the general welfare - Promote health and safety How does the Government provide public services? - Undertaking projects that individuals would not do - sewer system - Cooling centers - Food inspectors

Provide National Security - Protecting the country. Example: The government funds the military to research new weapons, therefore protecting its citizens. Why is this important? - Terrorists (Think 9/11) - Nuclear Weapons - Spy Satellites - Foreign Armies How does the Government provide National Security? - Keep up foreign relationships - Has exclusive power to make treaties - Makes trade agreements - Has the power to increase security

Makes Economic Decisions - How the government chooses to funnel its money. Example: The government chooses to give a fraction of money to education, some to health, military. . . etc. Why is this important? - Conflicts between the rich and the poor - Economic growth - Economic stability How does the Government make economic decisions? - Control inflation - Encourage trade - Regulates the development of natural resources - Subsidized crops - Tax advantages - Aid other countries

Discussion: 1. How do you define Power? 2. Who has power over you? 3. Who do you have power over? 4. What else has power?

Foundations Vocabulary • Tape or glue onto page 3

Authority • The legal right or power to give orders and enforce rules

Government • Institutions and officials organized to establish and carry out public policy

Institution • An established organization, especially one providing a public service, and the rules that guide it

Legitimacy • The quality of being accepted as and authority, often applied to laws or those in power

Nation-state • A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality • Political and Cultural Identity are the same. • a self-governed political entity occupied by people who speak the same language and share a common history and culture.

Politics • The process and method of making decisions for groups. Although generally applied to governments, politics is also observed in all human interactions.

Power • The ability to cause others to behave as they might not otherwise choose to do

Public Good • A product or service that is available for all people to consume, whether they pay for it or not.

Sovereignty • The right to exercise supreme authority over a geographic region, a group of people or oneself.

Fill out your Chart • Write a sentence behind the flap. • Draw a symbol for the term on the front. – Create your own pg 3