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Objective SWBAT describe the four purposes of government and their importance in creating a functional society in order to explain what life would be like without government. •Maryland law requires that an individual must wear a helmet when riding on, or driving a motorcycle. What is the purpose of this law? A. to decrease the sale of motorcycles B. to prevent crashes involving motorcycles C. to protect motorcycle riders from possible injuries D. to increase the sales of protective gear for motorcycle riders Warm-Up and give me a sentence explaining your c
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ObjectiveSWBAT describe the four purposes of government and their importance in creating a functional society in order to explain what life would be like without government.

•Maryland law requires that an individual must wear a helmet when riding on, or driving a motorcycle. What is the purpose of this law?A. to decrease the sale of motorcyclesB. to prevent crashes involving motorcyclesC. to protect motorcycle riders from possible injuriesD. to increase the sales of protective gear for motorcycle riders

Warm-UpAnswer and give me a sentence explaining your choice.

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Frayer Model

Vocabulary Word

Definition Characteristics

Example Non-Example

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Critical Vocabulary

•Government

•Social Order

•Public Service

•National Security

•Economic Decisions

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Government

•the institution through which the state maintains social order, provides public services, and enforces binding decisions on citizens.

•Characteristics

1. has one or more leaders that ensure it exists

2. there is no government without people (the governed)

•Ex: The United States Government

•Non-Ex: Chaos; people stealing, looting, and killing in order to survive

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Social Order•a set of linked social structures, social institutions and social practices which conserve, maintain and enforce "normal" ways of relating and behaving

•Characteristics

1.the type of government decides the “normal” ways of behaving.

2.enforced through binding laws or agreements.

•Ex: Having to raise your hand in class

•Non-Ex: Everybody talking whenever they want to

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Public Service•services provided by the government to

the public with the purpose of enhancing the general well-being, or welfare, of individuals, communities, and states.

•Characteristics

1.provide people with items that they could not have on their own

2. includes the enforcement of laws

•Ex: Welfare checks and road services

•Non-Ex: A police officer not following the laws

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National Security•maintain the survival of the nation through the use of economic, military and political power, as well as working with foreign countries.

•Characteristics

1.can protect people from harm and terrorism

2. includes creating good relationships with other countries

•Ex: Having a navy defend the seas surrounding a country

•Non-Ex: Having an alarm on all houses in a country

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Economic Decisions•financial decisions made in order to prevent conflict, ensure well-being of the state, and make sure basic needs of the people are met.

•Characteristics

1. includes taxing people

2. includes payments and public services

•Ex: Deciding how and where to build roads / Budgets

•Non-Ex: Spending tax dollars on personal items.

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Purposes of Government

•Government provides social order

•People need government to protect them from themselves and others.

•Government prevents conflict and dispute.

•Creates laws and gives people an orderly way of settling issues.

•Stop signs and stoplights are an example of social order.

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Purposes of Government

•Government provides public services

•Can do for people what an individual cannot alone.

•Promotes the general welfare through projects that serve the community.

•Promotes the general welfare by enforcing laws that promote safety and health.

•State legislators pass laws that ban talking on the cell phone while driving.

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Purposes of Government

•Government provides national security

•Protects individuals within a society from outside harm.

•Promotes positive relationships with other countries through trade and treaties.

•Prevents attacks through the use of military intelligence.

•Preventing terrorist attacks

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Purposes of Government•Government makes economic decisions

•Government can use this power to ensure basic needs of all are met.

•Decide how to tax individuals in order to provide public services, such as roads.

•Directs the economic growth of cities and number of jobs in a community.

•Plan how and where cities should grow in order to promote the well-being of citizens.

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Guided Practice1. Social Order

1. Make a list of AT LEAST 5 every-day examples for each

purpose of government.

2. In 4 sentences, explain why one of your examples is

important for having government.

Relate your answer to the purpose of government you

are working on.

1. Stop signs

2. Police Officers

3. Speed Limits

4. Cross walks

5. Laws

6. Courts

We need to have laws in order to maintain social order, because if we

didn’t people would do whatever they wanted to.If people did what they wanted to, then we

would always have to hide our things and watch our backs.

If we have to spend all of our time watching our backs, we could never do

anything fun.

This is because they would try to take our things.

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Guided Practice1. Social Order

3. In 4 sentences, explain what life would be like if

government did NOT provide the service you gave in your

example.Focus on the purpose of government that you are

currently working on.

If we did not have laws, then the world would be a scary place.

I would be fearful because I could be shot, or killed because somebody just

felt like doing that to me.

Laws prevent most people from hurting others, because they know they will

have to go to jail and suffer consequences.

Without consequences, the world would be a chaotic place that I would not want

to live in.

Therefore, we need government.