Chapter+1+Notes

=Content Standards for Chapter 1: =

Core Standards:
===Compare and contrast the various types of governments (e.g. monarchy, oligarchy, representative democracy, dictatorship, autocracy). Describe the sources of authority each has used to legitimize government power.===

===Discuss the ways in which founding era ideas and documents relate to contemporary society. Explain past and present efforts to narrow discrepancies between fundamental democratic principles and the realities of American political and civic life. Explain the importance of a civil society for the preservation and improvement of our form of government.===

Sub Standards:
Key Concepts from Chapter 1:
 * 1) ===Define and contrast types of government including direct democracy, monarchy, oligarchy, and totalitarianism.===
 * 2) ===Compare and contrast characteristics of limited and unlimited governments and provide historical and contemporary examples of each type of government.===
 * 3) ===Compare and contrast unitary*, confederal*, and federal* systems of government.===
 * 4) ===Explain how civil society* contributes to the maintenance of limited government in a representative democracy or democratic republic, such as the United States.===
 * 5) ===Describe the sources of authority from ancient to modern times that provided governmental legitimacy.===
 * 6) ===Explain the importance of a written constitution in establishing and maintaining the principles of rule of law and limited government.===
 * 7) ===Describe the sources of authority from ancient to modern times that provided governmental legitimacy.===
 * 8) ===Describe how the United States Constitution establishes majority rule while protecting minority rights and balances the common good with individual liberties.===

Define:

Government
 * the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit**

Public Policies

Executive Power
 * is the branch of government responsible for the day-to-day management of the state**

Legislative Power
 * is a type of representative deliberative assembly with the power to create, amend and ratify laws**

Judicial Power
 * is the system of courts which administer justice in the name of the sovereign or state**

Democracy
 * a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them **

Repbulic

Dictatorship
 * a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator **

List the 4 characteristics of a state
 * Population, Territory, Soverignty, and Government.**

Explain the 4 Theories on the Origin of the State

Explain how the Preamble of the Constitution establishes the Government of the United States

Explain the difference between Unitary, Confederate, and Federal forms of government.

Describe how the Prime Minister is elected in a Parliamentary System of government.

Compare and Contrast the strengths and weaknesses of Presidential and Parliamentary Systems of government

Explain how the United States balances Majority Rule and Minority Rights

Explain the Importance of Civilian Control of the Military

Important Institutions or Characteristics of Democracy: 1. Strong Middle Class

2. Classless Education System

3. Political Consensus

4. Growing Economy

5. Support from other Nations

6. Free Press

7. Professional Military

Key Principles of Democracy: 1. Equality of All Persons

2. Majority Rule, but Respect for Minority Rights

3. Necessity of Compromise

4. Individual Freedom

a. Explain this qoute in terms of Individual Freedom-"The right to swing my fist ends when the other man's nose begins> Olliver Wendell Holmes