Government/Civics Understandings
SS7CG4 The student will compare and contrast various forms of government.
a. Describe the ways government systems distribute power: unitary, confederation, and federal.
a. Describe the ways government systems distribute power: unitary, confederation, and federal.
a. Describe the ways government systems distribute power: unitary, confederation, and federal.
b. Explain how governments determine citizen participation: autocratic, oligarchic, and democratic.
b. Explain how governments determine citizen participation: autocratic, oligarchic, and democratic.
b. Explain how governments determine citizen participation: autocratic, oligarchic, and democratic.
c. Describe the two predominant forms of democratic governments: parliamentary and presidential.
Parliamentary Government is a system of government having the real executive power vested in a cabinet composed of members who are individually and collectively responsible to the legislature. May have a Prime Minister elected by the legislature. In other words people vote for legislators who came from many different political parties. The political party in the legislature (parliament) who has the most members gets to select an executive called the "prime minister". The "prime minister' must listen to the members of the parliament to make decisions since he/she was chosen from them.
c. Describe the two predominant forms of democratic governments: parliamentary and presidential.
Presidential Government is a system of government in which the president is constitutionally independent of the legislature, meaning people vote for a president and for members of the legislature separately. Example, in the U.S., we vote for a president. who is our chief executive branch member.We also vote for members of our legislature (the senate and House of Representatives) separately. The legislature branch is a separate body of government from the executive branch. They do not tell each other what to do.