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| things which human beings need or want to survive |
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| land, minerals,plant life, animal life, water and air. |
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| (man made)includes: tools, equpitment, buildings and money....money is not grown on trees |
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| human creativity in producing new porducts or a new buisness |
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| physical or mental work done by humans to produce goods and services |
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| the condition of not having enough resources for humans to survive and prosper |
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| the study of how indivilduals and societies allocate reasources |
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| Government is the ruling______for a community. |
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| The british philosopher who said that life without government would be"solitary, brutish, nasty, poor, and short" |
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| the idea that people are born free with rights to enjoy life, liberty and property. |
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| John locke and jean-jacques Rousseau were European Enlightenment philosophers who argued that people enter into a _______ _______ with their government wherein they give ip some natural rights to protect other rights. |
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| One of the functions of government is to decide how to allocate or distribute ______ resources among the people it governs. |
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Reasons for government:
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| Keeping ______ by making rules or laws. |
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REasons for govnt:
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| Providing______from local or foreign threats. |
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reasons for govent:
"services" |
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| Providing______ to people which might not be avaliable otherwise. |
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| An absence of government authority |
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| a govnt in which one or a small group of people takes and holds absolute power |
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| and authoritarian govnt in which ony one person holds absolute power |
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| an autocracy in which one person seizes or takes absoulte power |
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| an autocracy in which a king or queen holds absolute power based on inheariting it from an ansestor |
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| an authoritarian govnt where a small group of people seizes and holds absolute power |
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| in all democratic froms of govnt, the ______ control the decision-making in their society |
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| The idea of a direct democracy that all citizens can participate equally in making policy decisions in a community was developed by a man named________ in athens, greece in 508 bc |
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| in the Us people still practice direct democracy inn _______ _______ in new england where all citizens in the community meet and vote on local policy decisions on a regular basis. |
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problems with a direct democracy:
"large" |
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| it may be inefficient with_______groups of people. |
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| the majority may treat a _____ group unfairly. |
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| Voters may not be ______enough to make good decisons. |
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| the idea of a direct democracy was first developed in_____beginning in around 508 bc |
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| rep democracy is sometimes called a _______instead of a democracy based on the latin phrase"res publica" |
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| in the rep democracy the people select political ________who are suppose to use experience and intelligence to make major policy decisions. |
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| a mojor problen ith rep. democracy is keeping leaders like Julius ceaser in ancient rome from using their elected positions to seize______ and ______. |
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| ANY type of govnt which tries to control the lives of its citizen in every possible way. |
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Good laws should be fair, reasonable, understandable, and
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| the type of law which sets forth rules and consequescesto keep people from untentionally or recklessly harming society in general and indiviluals is called a _____ ___. |
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| the type of law which sets forth rules and consequenes controlling relationships between humans as individuals and group of people is called ______ law. |
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| rules made by a governing authority given the power to make laws are sometimes called a ____ and may include statues or ordinances. |
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| the first known system of written laws exised in babylon about 4000 years ago. |
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| a collection and orginization of the laws of anciet rome into what was called the Corpos Juris Civilis. |
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| started in france in AD 1804 as a modernized law of rome and seves as the foundation fort he "civil code" system of laws currently existing in much of europe , africa and asia. |
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| the primary advantage of a "civil code system" of laws that there is some amount of ________ about what the law is. |
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| the disadvantage of a "civil code" system of laws is that tere is not much flexibility to allow for ________ to the law to fit unsual facts. |
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| The "Common Law" system originated in England allows judges to use ________ ______ and traditions, customs, and habits in the community to interpret legal codes. |
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| in the "common law" judges put there decisions and reasons in writing called ________which can be used by other judges to decide similar cases in the future. |
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| the promary disadvantage of the common law is that the interoretatuin of codes by judges might now be consistance resulting in greater_______about the rules of governing a society. |
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