Civics and Economics

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Civics and Economics

• Have you ever been left without adult supervision
  or knew someone who was?

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Direct Democracy and Government Power

• The following activity will explore the concepts
  of colonization, salutary neglect, government
  power (where does it come from?), popular
  sovereignty, and democracy.

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Welcome to Mars

• Your class has been selected to colonize Mars.
• Once on Mars, the United States government will
  be adopting a policy of salutary neglect.
  This means that they are leaving us to govern
  ourselves.
• We will have to come up with our own rules.

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Why do we need rules?

• In a moment we will break into Table Groups
• You will create a list of five rules that you
  think we would need to follow.
• You need
• Group recorder (writes down rules)
• Group mediator (makes sure everyone inputs)
• Group presenter (answers my questions at the end)
• You have 5 minutes GO!

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Create a class list of rules

1. Rules?

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Now that we have some rules

• Who will enforce them?
• How will they get their authority?
• How will these rules will be enforced?
• What will be the punishment for breaking rules?

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Terms

• Monarchy
• Type of Autocracy one person has all the power.
  King, queen, What ever the royal title, your in
  power because your parents were.
• Salutary Neglect
• Neglected, left alone, unsupervised, on your own

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• Popular Sovereignty
• The people are in charge
• Democracy
• When the people have the power. Popular
  Sovereignty is a characteristic of democracy.
• Social Contract
• The people give government permission to be in
  charge in return for protection.

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Terms

• Types of Democracies
• Direct Democracy
• People make all the choices themselves,
  personally
• Representative Democracy
• You pick someone to make the choices for you.
• What type did you form on Mars?