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- state constitutions
- -longer, more detail, preamble, bill of rights, establishes 3 branches of government -changed more often than national
- state legislatures
- -sessions;annually -representation is divided among districts of equal population
- making laws
- -initiative; citizens propose laws -referendum; voters approve or reject bill proposed by state legislators -recall;remove elected officials from office
- financing state governments
- -taxes;states raise more that 50% of their total revenue from states and income -federal funds
- executive power
- laws are enforced, appoints officials, greatest source of power is budget making role
- legislative power
- proposes legislation, veto\'s bills, influences law making by persuading legislators
- judicial role
- appoints state judges, grant pardons, reduce sentences
- commander-in-chief
- call up national guard in emergency
- current colorado governor
- bill ritter
- state courts and judges terms of service/selection
- limited terms, appointed/ elected by governor
- duties
- similar to federal judges
- function of courts
- settle conflicting claims
- establishing state governments
- by state governments
- types of local governments counties
- oldest form of local gov.
- towns/ cities
- municipality: new england towns use direct democracy
- special districts
- school, fire, water, electric unit of government that provides single service
- city government mayor council plan
- weak- both legislative and executive power with city council strong- mayor sets budget policies appointments council makes ordinances
- council- manager plan
- run government like business hire city manager
- commisions plan
- commissions direct different departments for the city and together make ordaninces
- education
- local government spend most of their money on education but local education receives from all levels of government
- utilities
- water, gas, electric, sewer, garbage
- health and welfare
- job training low cost housing welfare
- land use/ zoning
- planning commission set goals for land use zoning-rules for landuse
- public saftey
- police, fire, inspectors, 911
- taxes
- more than 25% comes from property taxes but local government may collect any taxes they want
- service charge
- parking meters, bridge fees, parking tolls
- sharing revenue
- intergovernmental
- factors of production
- land labor capital enterpenuership
- want satisfaction chain
- wants> factors> process of production> good/service> distribute> consumed> satisfaction
- benefit
- what you gain for making a choice of scarce resources
- cost
- what you get in return
- scarcity
- recourses are always limited compared with our wants
- economic questions
- - what to produce - how to produce - for whom to produce for
- economies traditional
- do things we always have
- economies command
- government owns and makes decisions
- economies market
- decisions are made by individuals who own factors of production
- u.s economy is best described as...
- a mixed economy because we have all three elements
- characteristics of a market economy
- 1. private ownership 2. individual decision making 3. bargaining 4. competition 5. profit motive
- supply
- amount that producers are willing to offer at different prices
- law of supply
- the higher the price the greater the supply
- when a demand for a product increases
- both supply and price will increase
- when demand for a product decreases
- both supply and price will decrease