1. Have basic principles that affect the way it serves its people.
Governments
Have basic principles that affect the way it serves its people.

2. Create Your Own Government you are the ruler…….
Who holds all the power
Do you have all the power or do you share with officials that you trust?
Are you the ultimate source of power?
Do citizens have any power?
Can your citizens have a say so in what decisions are made?
Explain why you think this would be a good government
Label this “Government 1”
Create Your Own Government you are the ruler…….

3. Unitary Government Power is held by one central authority.
Creates all the laws for an entire country
Central authority
Regional authority
Unitary Government

4. Unitary Examples
The United Kingdom
Ukraine
Japan
Italy
Israel
Cuba

5. Citizen Participation: Autocratic
The citizen has little to no role in government
One person has unlimited power
Dictator or ruler maintain their power through inheritance or military force
People who try to speak against the government are silenced through force
Citizen Participation: Autocratic

6. Tsarist Russia
Cuba
North Korea
Autocratic Examples

7. Answer these Questions:
Define Unitary government
Identify countries that have Unitary governments
How is power distributed throughout the government?
Answer these Questions:

8. Autocratic vs Unitary Rule
Just because there is a central authority does NOT mean that the government practices autocratic rule!!
Autocratic governments have dictators that rule their people by force.
Autocratic vs Unitary Rule

9. For example, although the United Kingdom has a central authority, they do hold democratic elections.
The people hold power and can be directly or indirectly represented.
Autocratic vs Unitary

10. “Government 2” QuickWrite
You are the dictator of ____________.
Your main objective is to stay in power. You also want to keep your citizens in line. What would you do to ensure that you stay in power and to make sure none of your citizens speak out against you. Is there anything that you can do to avoid a revolution?
“Government 2” QuickWrite

11. Types of Autocracies Absolute monarchy Dictatorship Totalitarianism
Tsarist Russia
Dictatorship
North Korea
Totalitarianism
Nazi Germany
Autocracies
Absolute Monarchy
Totalitarianism
Dictatorship
Types of Autocracies

12. Definitions Absolute Monarchy
Unrestricted political power; functions as the head of state and head of government
Tsarist Russia and France before the revolution
Dictatorship
Absolute rule; governs without the consent of the people
North Korea and Romania
Totalitarian
Government controls every aspect of peoples lives; no limit to its authority; use propaganda and terror.
Nazi Germany and Italy under Mussolini
Definitions

13. Unitary Governments United Kingdom Cuba Parliamentary democracy
Chief of State- Queen Elizabeth
Head of Government- Prime Minister
Elections
Voting age is 18
Autocratic rule
Fidel Castro has been in power for almost 50 yrs
Communist rule no elections
Unitary Governments

14. Unitary Review! Unitary Governments definition Autocratic countries
Has a Parliamentary democracy
Unitary examples
The United Kingdom
Power is held by a central authority
Ukraine, Israel, Japan
Tsarist Russia, Cuba
Unitary Review!

15. Power is divided between one central and several regional authorities.
Power flows in both directions
Power is shared between the central government and the states
Federal Governments

16. Central
Government
State

17. Federal Government Examples
The United States
Germany
Russia
Australia
Canada
Brazil
Mexico
Federal Government Examples

18. Democracies: Rule of ALL
A government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised through then directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving free elections
Democracies: Rule of ALL

19. Parliamentary Presidential
Executive and legislature are independent of each other
President is head of State
Examples
Mexico, Brazil, and the United States
Executive and legislature are co- dependent
May have a Prime Minister
Examples
Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Germany

20. Citizen Participation: Democracy:
Parliamentary
Presidential
President is the Head of Government and State
President is elected
Legislature and Presidents serves for fixed term periods
President does not make law
Prime Minister is Head of Government
Parliament selects Prime Minister
Prime Minister can dissolve Parliament
May have Head of State with little political power
Citizens elect lawmakers
Leader heads the military and runs the government
Citizen Participation: Democracy:

21. Confederations Voluntary associations of states
Attempting to obtain some common purpose
Agree to certain limitations to freedom
Power lies within the state
Central government is very weak
Confederations

22. Central
Government
State

23. Native American tribes
Confederate States of America
Examples

24. Oligarchic Participation
RULE BY FEW!
Small group of leaders decides what the majority does
May have power because of:
Wealth
Military support
May come from a common family
Low or no citizen participation
South Africa
Oligarchic Participation

25. Answer these questions
What is the basic way citizens of a democratic nation can influence the government?
Voting
Working
Obeying laws
Consuming goods?
The leader of the Parliament in countries such as Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom is called the
Speaker
Prime Minister
President
Chairman
Answer these questions

26. What type of government would most likely abolish all opposing political parties, the direct elections of leaders, and free speech?
Republic
Constitutional Monarchy
autocratic
In which system of government does the legislature elect the executive leader of the government
Presidential Democracy
Communist
Parliamentary Democracy
Dictatorship

27. Each group will be given a certain government type and perform this government type in a skit to the class.
each individual person must describe their government AND how you contributed to the group
Every person must participate or have a role in the skit
Skit should be clearly acted out so that the class can guess what the government type is.
Government 3