Government Study Guide<\/p>\n
Test on Thursday, February 25th<\/sup><\/p>\n *The six purposes of government<\/u> are:\u00a0 to keep people safe, to make and enforce laws, to help solve problems, to protect individual rights, to look out for the common good, and to provide services.<\/p>\n *Building and fixing roads is an example of providing services.<\/p>\n *The common good<\/u> means people work together for the benefit of everyone.<\/p>\n *The state government keeps citizens safe by providing a state police force.<\/p>\n *People in a representative government<\/u> elect leaders to make laws and decisions for them.<\/p>\n *The people<\/u> hold the power in a republic.<\/u><\/p>\n *Our state representatives and senators represent the citizens of Michigan in our state government.<\/p>\n *Each local government <\/u>makes its own laws for each county or city.<\/p>\n *If you want to build a fence in your own yard, your local<\/u> government will tell you where\/how to build it.<\/p>\n *The state government <\/u>takes care of our state parks.<\/p>\n *Michigan\u2019s three branches of government are:\u00a0 legislative, executive, and judicial<\/u><\/p>\n *The judicial<\/u> branch interprets laws and decides if they have been broken.<\/p>\n *The leader of the state executive<\/u> branch is the governor<\/u>.<\/p>\n *The courts interpret the laws, which mean they decide what the laws mean.<\/p>\n *The state courts help to end conflicts between citizens by deciding when laws have been broken.<\/p>\n *One important job that ALL citizens have is to serve on a jury.<\/p>\n *The state of Michigan has a constitution to list rules for making state laws.<\/p>\n *Al list of rights for the people of Michigan can be found in Michigan\u2019s constitution.<\/p>\n *Limited government<\/u> means the government can only do what the people give it the power to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Government Study Guide Test on Thursday, February 25th *The six purposes of government are:\u00a0 to keep people safe, to make and enforce laws, to help solve problems, to protect individual rights, to look out for the common good, and to provide services. *Building and fixing roads is an example of providing services. *The common good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/shenew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/shenew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/shenew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/shenew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/shenew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/shenew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/shenew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/shenew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/shenew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}