NOTES
How to make them GREAT!
YOUR NOTES SHOULD…
 Tell you the main idea of text
 Give you an idea of chronology if that is important to the topic
 ALWAYS include the date and section of reading
 Be organized (outline)- can use roman numerals or not.
 Not include abbreviations unless you are POSITIVE you will
remember them
 Make sense to you.
MORE TIPS
 When you are done, review your notes to make sure that you
understand them
 Sketch any important timelines, charts, etc. that you think are
important to understanding the information
 Pay attention to repeated ideas and words
CHAPTER ONE, LESSON FOUR
F O R M S O F G OV E R N M E N T
 Functions of government
• Keep order
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Pass and enforce laws to deter crime and prevent conflicts.
Establish courts. Help resolve issues between citizens.
Know what
the words
mean!
• Provide security
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Establish armed forces
Protect citizens from foreign attacks
• Provide services
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Libraries, schools, hospitals, parks
Protect public safety, health, and welfare. Ex. Police and fire, safety of
products, mandate vaccines, aid to the poor and disabled.
• Guide the community
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Use financial resources to make public policy, manage the economy, and
conduct foreign affairs.
Levels of gov.
 Federal system of gov. = power divided between federal
government and the states
 State gov can’t make laws that goes against national gov.
 Fed. Gov. in charge of… citizenship, make and enforce laws
for whole country
 State gov. in charge of… education, elections, public safety
 Local gov. in charge of… police and fire, local courts, street
cleaning
You don’t have
to use complete
sentences!
Be Organized! It
makes notes
easier to review!
Types of Government
 Democratic
 Representative democracy- citizens choose people to
represent them and make laws on their behalf (US has
the oldest)
 Republic- citizens have a role in choosing who leads
the country
 Constitutional monarchy- monarch has limited role,
often just ceremonial. Voters elect lawmakers and
leader of country.
 Majority rule- majority has power to make laws that everyone else
follows
 Principles of American Democracy
 Rule of law
 Limited government
 Consent of the governed
 Individual rights
 Representative democracy
 Free, fair, and competitive elections
 Majority rule
 Authoritarian- power is held by a person or a group not
accountable to the people
 Autocracy- ex. Absolute monarchy. Not many in the would.
Saudi Arabia, Qatar.
 Dictatorship- complete power. Come to power by force.
Rely on police and military. People do not have freedom.
Ex. North Korea, Turkmenistan
 Totalitarian rule- gov. controls almost all aspects of life. Tell
people what they can believe and do. Control the media and
use scare tactics. Often based on an ideology = strict idea
about life and society. Ex. Nazi Germany under Hitler,
Fascist Italy under Mussolini, and Soviet Union under
Stalin. Today, Cuba, North Korea, Myanmar.
 Can include oligarchies (rule by a small group of people)
and theocracies (rule by religious leaders).
 Socialism- system in which society controls all aspects of the
economy, either directly or indirectly through the government.
Goal is for nation’s wealth to be more evenly divided.
 Systems of gov.
 Most governments around the world are not federal, but
unitary = central government is supreme. France, Japan.
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