Monday 8/10get your textbook

RAP

Current Event

• Every Wednesday, two or three people will present a current event to the class.

• You must a visual– Prezi or PPT to present –pictures on each slide!!

• You must turn a ½ page summary of the article and ½ page opinion of the article.• 12 font

• Double space

• Attach the first page of your article – need to go to a legitimate source –BBC, Arizona Daily Star, Al Jazeera America, etc.

• If you are not sure about the source, please ask me.

• Talk to your parents about current issues.

From Friday

• 10 questions, out of the 100, are chosen to ask the person trying to obtain citizenship.• How many questions do you think the person needs to answer

correctly to move on in the process?

State of Nature handout

• In your notebook• Please title your page Analyzing primary sources: The State of

Nature.

• As a class, we will read the intro.

• With the person next to you, please read primary sources A-F

• When you have completed reading the primary sources, please answer questions 1-3.

Textbooks---page 2-3

• Please read “You can make a difference” top of page 3• Please list some examples in your notebook of how we, at IRHS,

attempt to make a difference.

• What is your opinion of what Danny said?

• Explain.

Ch. 1.1 Government and the State

• Please begin reading Ch. 1 and complete the handout---Due Wednesday• You will have some time to finish it on Wednesday. (30

minutes or so)

• Answer questions and terms completely!! In relation to the reading. • Explain and give examples.

Tuesday 8/11RAP

• Watch the video clip.

• What is your feelings on this state of emergency?

• Do you think the government should respond in any way? Explain.

Today:

• CNN student news ? If available

• CE reminder

• Work on/complete Ch. 1.

Ch. 1Foundations of American Government Review

• Government is the institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies.• Every government has and exercises three basic kinds of power:

• Legislative power: the power to make law and to frame public policies

• Executive power: the power to execute, enforce, and administer law

• Judicial power: the power to interpret laws, to determine their meaning, and to settle disputes that arise with in the society.

• Dictatorship: power held by one person or a few.

• Democracy: power rests with a majority of the people.

• State: can be defined as a body of people, living in a defined territory, organized politically and with the power to make and enforce law without the consent of any higher authority.

• State is often a nation or country.

• Nation is an ethnic term, referring to races or other large groups of people

• Country is geographic and refers to a particular place, region, or area of land.

State• Within the state you must have

• A POPULATION

• TERRITORY --- land

• SOVEREIGNTY– supreme and absolute power within its territory and can decide its own foreign and domestic policies.

• GOVERNMENT—politically organized.

• Sovereignty: every state is sovereign; it has supreme and absolute power within its own territory and can decide its own foreign and domestic policies.• US can decide its own form of government; frame its economic system and shape its own

foreign policies.

• States within the US are not sovereign.

• Every state is politically organized; or has a government.

• English philosopher Thomas Hobbes believed that without government there would be “continual fear and danger of violent death and life (would be) solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”

• Chart on the Four Characteristics of the State: (pg. 6) Does your school qualify as a state? No.• It lacks independent, sovereign governments, and most do not have their own territory.

• Many different theories of the origin of state: Pg. 7• Force theory- one person or a small group made another group of people submit to that

person or group’s rule.

• Evolutionary theory- the state developed naturally out of the early family.

• Divine Right theory- widely accepted in much of the Western world from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. God created state and gave those of royal birth “divine right” to rule.

• Beginning in the seventeenth century philosophers began to question that theory. • The Social Contract Theory, the origin of the state is that of the “social

contract.”

• Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and James Harrington developed this theory in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

• People gave up the state of nature by agreeing with one another to create a state. Contract

• So, the Social Contract theory arose out of a voluntary act of free people.

• Concepts like popular sovereignty, limited government, and individual rights were promoted from this theory.

Interpreting Political Cartoons on page 8: This cartoon pokes fun at the theory of social contract by implying that government does not improve conditions, but makes them worse.

Finish reading and taking notes on Ch.1

Wednesday 8/12

• RAP• Analyze this political cartoon.

• CE Turn in Ch. 1 reading notes.

• Review Ch. 1

RAP

Today:

• CE Turn in Ch. 1 reading notes.

• Review Ch. 1

Social Contract Power point

Thursday 8/13/15RAP

Read Second Treatise on Government – John Locke

• Answer questions 1-2

Today:

Finish reviewing section one and begin Chapter 2

• Purpose of Government: read the Preamble to the Constitution on page 8• Form a more perfect union

• Establish justice

• Insure domestic tranquility

• Provide for the common defense

• Promote the general welfare

• Secure the blessings of liberty

• In groups, you will receive one of these purposes, your group will create a small poster depicting how government carries out each particular function on a daily basis. Use both current and historical examples.• Illustrations – no words

• As many examples as possible

• 15 minutes! Go!

• Put on the board when complete.

Second Treatise on Government pg. 11

• Please read this primary source and answer the four questions in your notebook.• Title: Second Treatise on Government—John Locke

• We will review as a class… be prepared to answer the questions.

Forms of Government Ch. 1.2There are three general classifications for governments:

1. Who can participate in the governing process

2. The geographic distribution of governmental power within the state

3. The relationship between the legislative and the executive branches of the government.

• No two governments are the same.

Who Can Participate governments:

• Democracy:• Supreme political authority rests with the people.

• Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address: “government of the people, by the people, for the people.”

• Direct democracy- exists where the will of the people is translated into public policy directly by the people themselves.

• Indirect democracy or representative democracy, where a small group of persons are chosen to act as representatives to express the popular view.

• A dictatorship exists where those who rule cannot be held responsible to the will of the people.• It is probably the oldest and most common form of

government.

• Autocracy is a government in which a single person holds unlimited political power.

• Oligarchy is a government in which the power to rule is held by a small and usually self-appointed elite group.

• All dictatorships are authoritarian; modern dictatorships are totalitarian. Mussolini, Hitler, etc.

• Sometimes these dictatorships have the outward appearance of control by the people.

Geographic Distribution:

• Unitary government is often described as a centralized government.• Most governments in the world are unitary in form; ex. Great

Britain but also democratic.

• All powers in the government are centralized.

• Geographic cont.

• Federal government is one in which the powers of government are divided between a central government and several local governments.• There is a division of power between the central and local governments based on a geographical

basis.

• The U.S. has a division of power set out in the Constitution.

• Each of the 50 state governments is unitary and not federal, in form.

• Confederate government is an alliance of independent states.• These are very rare today, but the European Union is the closest.

Relationship between Legislative and Executive Branches• Presidential government has a separate legislative and executive branch as seen in the US.

• Presidents are chosen independently of the legislature, has a fixed term, and the legislative branch does not have direct control over the president.

• Parliamentary government has a prime minister or premier and an official cabinet; and a legislative branch.

• The prime minister and cabinet are members of the parliament.

• They can be removed or resign from office if they do not accomplish important matters.

• Differences between the two: parliament and prime minister and cabinet can resign if not getting the job done; presidential form has conflicts between the president and legislative branches that can last a long time; parliament does not have checks and balances.

Please read “Recognizing Propaganda” on pg. 17Answer the three questions in complete sentences.

Propaganda techniques pg. 17

Ch. 1.3 Basic Concepts of Democracy:

American concept of democracy rests on these basic notions:1. A recognition of the fundamental worth and dignity of every person

2. A respect for the equality of all persons

3. A faith in majority rule and an insistence upon minority rights

4. An acceptance of the necessity of compromise

5. An insistence upon the widest possible degree of individual freedom.

Has the American concept of democracy, the five basic notions, been accomplished?

• Is it an easy road?

Necessity of Compromise• Compromise is an essential part of the democratic concept;

• First, democracy puts the individual first, and also insists that each individual is the equal of all others.(Political cartoon on pg. 20)

• Second, few public questions have only two sides. Most can be answered any many ways.

• Individual Freedom• Democracy does not allow for complete freedom. Why?

• Free Enterprise system• American economic system is often called the free enterprise system or capitalism.

• Based on four factors: private ownership, individual initiative, profit, and competition.

• Law of supply and demand• Market makes decisions on supply and demand.

• Law states that when supplies of goods and services become plentiful, prices tend to drop. When supplies become scarcer, prices tend to rise. (Example today?)

• Mixed economy• A combination of government regulation and private enterprise; US

• National, state, and local– regulated: antitrust laws, pure food and drug laws, anti-pollution laws, etc.; promoted: grants money for transportation systems, scientific research, and the growing of particular food crops, building roads, public schools, etc.

Ch. 2: Origins of American Government

• Open your textbook to page 26 and 27• Please read “You Can Make a Difference”

• How have you made a difference?

• Please define or explain the terms and ideas on the handout for Ch. 2.1 and 2.2. This is mostly a review, you learned this or went over this in World and US history.

Thursday 8/13/15RAP

Today:

CNN Student News

10 minutes to Finish poster

Finish Ch. 1 notes

Ch. 2.1 and 2.2 vocabulary and ideas