What is government
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This document discusses the roles and functions of government. It explains that every country needs a government to make decisions and provide services to citizens. The government is responsible for building infrastructure like roads and schools, as well as running important services and protecting citizens during disasters. Governments operate at local, state, and national levels. The document also discusses different types of governments like democracy and monarchy. It provides details about how India has a democratic government where citizens elect representatives through universal adult suffrage. The women's suffrage movement fought for women's right to vote in democratic countries.
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- 1. Class VI Sub Social Science (Civics) Lesson 3 Prepared by :- Akash Mohan Vashistha T.G.T Social Science J.N.V Faridabad
- 2. Every country needs a government to make decisions and get things done. Decisions about where to build roads and schools.
- 3. Other important things such as running postal and railway services . The government also has the job of protecting the boundaries of the country and maintaining peaceful relations with other countries.
- 4. It is responsible for ensuring that all its citizens have enough to eat and have good health facilities. When there are natural disasters like the tsunami or an earthquake it is the government that mainly organises aid and assistance for the affected people.
- 7. The state level would mean that which covers an entire state like Haryana or Assam
- 8. National level relates to the entire country . s
- 9. Laws and the Government The government makes laws and everyone who lives in the country has to follow these. This is the only way governments can function. Just like the government has the power to make decisions, similarly it has the power to enforce its decisions .
- 10. Types of Government Democracy it is the people who give the government this power. They do this through elections in which they vote for particular persons and elect them. Once elected, these persons form the government. In a democracy the government has to explain its actions and defend its decisions to the people.
- 11. Monarchy The monarch (king or queen) has the power to make decisions and run the government.The monarch may have a small group of people to discuss matters with, but the final decision- making power remains with the monarch.
- 12. Democratic Governments India is a democracy. This achievement is the result of a long and eventful struggle of the Indian people. The main feature of a democracy is that the people have the power to elect their leaders. So in a sense a democracy is rule by the people.
- 13. Democratic governments in our times are usually referred to as representative democracies. In representative democracies people do not participate directly but, instead, choose their representatives through an election process.
- 14. These representatives meet and make decisions for the entire population. These days a government cannot call itself democratic unless it allows what is known as universal adul franchise.This means that all adults in the country are allowed to vote.
- 15. Women's suffrage movement All over Europe and USA, women and the poor have had to fight fo participation in government. Women's struggle to vote got strengthened during the First World War. This movement is called the women's suffrage movement as the term suffrage usually means right to vote.
- 16. The suffragettes demanded the right to vote for all women and to get their demands heard they chained themselves to railings in public places. Many suffragettes were imprisoned and went on hunger strikes,and they had to be fed by force. American women got the right to vote in 1920 while women in the UK got to vote on the same terms as men some years later, in 1928.
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