Ms. Lankford THE HISTORY OF GOVERNMENT - Ms. Lankford.

Ms. Lankford

THE HISTORY OF GOVERNMENT - Ms.

Lankford

•Despite the disadvantages, man settles down in communities

- Strongest had been leading

•Sons inherit father’s place

- People trust those members from family or tribe

Hammurabi’s Code• First official set of laws was founded by

king Hammurabi.

– People believed he was called on by god.

• Nearly 4,000 years old (3,785 to be exact)– The Code consists of 282 laws, with

scaled punishments, adjusting "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth“.

LAWS• If a man destroyed the eye of a

free man, his own eye should be destroyed.

MORE LAWS• If a doctor operates on a man for

a severe wound or a tumor and causes the man to die, his hands shall be cut off.

EVEN MORE LAWS

• If a man takes a woman to wife, but has no intercourse with her, this woman is no wife to him.

LAST LAW• If a man is married and his wife

becomes ill, he may marry a second wife. However, he may not divorce his first wife, who should live in his home and be supported by him until she dies.

Monarchy – Rule by one

•Mostly Hereditary

•European Monarchies

•Evolution to Constitutional Monarchies

Other kinds of Government

Pericles – founder of Democracy

•“Demos” = People

•“True Democracy”

•All “citizens” had a say

Democracy

Early Democracy•Citizens were allowed to

participate in government.• However, to be a citizen you had to be:

– Male– Landowner– Native born– Wealthy

• Women, slaves, and foreigners were excluded.

Citizen

Not a citizen

Representative Democracy

•Studied older forms of government

•Electoral College

"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."

Thomas Jefferson

•Republic of Rome

•In a republic, senators make decisions

•Representative of the population

•Citizens represented

REPUBLIC

Is the United States a democracy, a republic, both, or

neither?I pledge allegiance

to the flag of the United States of America. And to

the REPUBLIC, for which it stands,

one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all!!

Soviet Russian dictator Joseph Stalin was a terrible enemy of the Ukrainian nation. He killed seven million Ukrainians in the 1933 famine. During World War II he also probably killed millions but the statistic is unknown.

Communism

•Theory first developed by Karl Marx late 19th Century

•A society in which all property is publicly owned and each person is paid according to their abilities and needs.

•Different ways of practice, Soviet, Chinese, Cuban, Vietnamese, etc.

•No real social theory

•Ruler maintains control whatever the cost

•Return to ancient times

Dictatorship

Fascism• A government

marked by authority under a dictator

• Reduces opposition through terror and censorship

•Religion is a key instrument in government

•Claim rule by God

•Use laws to enforce religion