Why+Goverments?

= Why governments? =

I think governments are needed to maintain peace and order in the society. Governments enforce rules on the citizens to make sure that no one’s rights are abused by anyone else. For example if one Governments also try to secure the safety of its people. For example if a country that didn’t have a government were attacked, then all the society would be in chaos trying to figure out what to do. But when there is a government. Then the government would decide what to do. Order the people to do it and probably have a much smaller death rate than if they didn’t have a government. Most governments also provide more benefits like giving health care and education to it people, which is very important in a society.

Things governments need to do:
=· Provide a protection for the citizens = = · Provide good education = = · Provide health care = = · Watch the economy = = · Fix the economy when its bad = = · Help the poor, elderly and disabled = = · Build public infrastructures = = · Take care of the environment in the country = = · Make and enforce laws = = · Set goals for the country = = · Provide a fair law = = · Ensure that he people have access to many different sources of news = = · Provide a fair leader = = · Find a source of income for the country. =

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Define democracy. Democracy is when a government rules by majority. For example if the majority agrees on one decision then it is done. Define Republic. Republic is when the law not the majority rules a government. Do you agree with this interpretation of what a democracy is as stated in the video? Yes the definition and examples sounded right to me. Define constitutional monarchy. A constitutional monarchy is when the king or queen is limited by a set of rules or a law.

Conservatism : Negative rights, group rights, desire to maintain esisting order, change is slow, social norms should be maintained group based.
 = Liberalism: Change based on individual rights more important that groups individual decisions, priority over group norms. =

= Socialism: Equality/equity/distribution, believe in some form of government involvement in creating fair distribution of wealth =

Politics: Obama Ghandi India Canada U.S. || Hitler Mao Stalin Mussolini Saudi Thailand China North Korea Jordan ||
 * Libertarian || Authoritarian ||
 * liberal

Economics: Mao North Korea China Sweden Canada (In between) || Free market Hitler Saudi India Jordan U.S U.K. ||
 * Left || Right ||
 * Communist




 *  Reflection:  it is difficult to separate the political and economic concept of many leaders and nations into two simple categories. All are mixtures that require interpretation based on events of history or events of the day. ||