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The Purpose of Government
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The Purpose of Government
What's the Purpose
FIRST TOPIC
The purpose of our government is found in our Constitution, which says that it will "establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our prosperity."
SECOND TOPIC
Role of the people in Government
The main role of the people in the U.S. government varies between the 3 branches. The Legislative Branch consists of Congress which make the laws, the Executive Branch which consists of the President, Vice President and the cabinet which carry out the laws made, and the Judicial Branch which consists of the Supreme Court and other courts which evaluate the laws. What all these roles have in common is that they all manage to keep us as citizens safe.
What is a Government
THIRD TOPIC
Government is the formal structures and institutions
through which decisions are made for a body of
people. A government is a typically composed of three
things: people, powers, and policies. The people of
government include everyone from elected officials to
public servants who carry out local, state, and national
government business
What came first the Chicken or the Egg?
Magna Carta-It was important to create this document because of it’s one of the foundations connected to basic human rights. Most philosophers look at this document for a basis.
John Locke-Locke was a philospher who believed in basic human rights.
He said we had the rights to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Articles of Confederation- looked good on paper, not so much in reality. Limited Government power.
The Constitution - The Supreme law of the land
September 17, 1787
Was meant to establish a government that protect the rights of the people
A little extra
Vocab
Vocab
government- the formal structures and institutions through which decisions are made for a body of people
policy-any decision made by government in pursuit of a particular goal
state-a political community made up by a group of people that lives within a clearly
defined territory
sovereignty-the supreme power of the state to act within its territory
politics- the process by which government makes and carries out decisions as to whose interests will be served in society
legitimacy-when rulers are seen as right and proper by important segments of a nation’s population
divine right of kings- a theory put forth by Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet that the king is
answerable only to God, not the people he ruled
social contract theory- theory of rule that says the first governments formed as a result of people agreeing among themselves to submit to the authority of a state, which in turn would protect and support them