U.S. Governement Chapter 1 of Houghton Mifflin
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- Why are some people from other countries angry at/dislike American?
- The cause lies in our country's international reach and role: foreign polocies, global economic, & military power.
- Discuss 3 major purposes of government.
- 1. Maintain order-protect property and life. 2. provide public goods-parks, highways, water. 3. promote equality-freedom of and freedom from.
- Discuss the values pursued by government.
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Freedom, Order, Equality.
Freedom- freedom of and from
Order- preserving life and protecting property. Equality- political, social, of opportunity, of outcome. - Discuss the models of democratic government.
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Majoritarian democracy and Pluralist democracy.
(Refer to Vocab terms) - Differences between liberals and conservatives.
- Liberals favor: gov activities that promote equality, such as affirmative action programs to employ min and increased spending on public housing. Oppose: Gov actions that restrict individual liberties as banning sexually explicit movies ot mandatory testing for AIDS. Conservatives are just the opposite.
- How does government impact your life?
- By not enforcing low income individuals to have to other avenues to better themselves w/o making a change in their life.
- Politics
- What u do to get what u want.
- Thomas Hobbes
- 17th century philosopher, he believed that a single ruler or soverign, must possess inquestioned authority to guarantee the safety of the weak to protect them from the attacks.
- John Locke
- Believed that government protected order by preserving private property. "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" as "unalienable right" of citezens under government. were his quotes
- Concept
- is a gerneralized idea of a class of items or thoughts. It groups various events, objects, or qualities under a commom classification or label.
- Power
- A government can protect the established order, its authority to safeguard residents safety, health, welfare, and morals.