FUNCTIONS OF
GOVERNMENT IN SOCIETY
UNIT 1

WHAT PURPOSE DOES GOVERNMENT
SERVE????
• Governments can serve many purposes.
• Some governments control people and some
governments are controlled by the people.
• What is the purpose of the government in the
United States?
• Limited Government vs. Unlimited Government
• Democracy vs. Dictatorship

COMPARING THE SYSTEMS
• Write about your perspective of the government of
the United States?
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Does it protect you?
Control you?
Make your life better?
Make your life difficult?

• The preamble of the constitution is the purpose
statement of the American Government:
• We the people of the United States, in order to form a
more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic
tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the
general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to
ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this
Constitution for the Un...

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