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<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/a> <\/a> English thinker John Locke said we have a right to protect the rights we are born with. The American Revolution acted on that idea by arguing that people as a group can choose whatever government they think will best protect those rights. But what are the choices?\u2008What are the ways that people have organized themselves to make their own rules and protections? Chester and his friends get a chance to try different governments on a distant planet with an unfriendly alien . . .<\/p>\n Kinds of Government answers the following topics:<\/strong> CHAPTER 2 THE LAWMAKERS<\/strong><\/p>\n The government of the United States has three branches: the legislative to make the laws, the executive to enforce the laws, and the judicial to review how those laws are working. The way the legislative branch works an idea into a law can be long and confusing. Our governments have a lot of checks and balances to keep bad ideas from becoming laws . . .<\/p>\n The Lawmakers answers the following topics: CHAPTER 3 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION<\/strong><\/p>\n One of the most important things a United States citizen can do to help run the government is to vote in elections at the local, state, and national level. The election that everyone can vote on is the race for president. Every four years men and women compete to see who will lead our executive branch. But this is no simple popularity contest. The Founding Fathers put in an important twist: the electoral college . . .<\/p>\n Presidential Election answers the following topics: CHAPTER 4 PRESIDENTIAL CABINET<\/strong><\/p>\n One of the most dramatic changes in the United States government over the past 200 years is the growth of the executive branch. The number of people who help the president enact the laws and run the day-to-day operations of the federal government has grown from a few thousand to millions because Americans expect more and more services from their government. Here is how a president organizes all his workers . . .<\/p>\n Presidential Cabinet answers the following topics: <\/a><\/p>\n Most adults agree that one goal of social studies education is to build better citizens. Chester can help! The four chapters in this graphic novel turn political theory into funny and active visual examples, from forming a new government on … Continue reading
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\nCHAPTER 1
\nKINDS OF GOVERNMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nWhat does government do?
\nWhy is dictatorship a bad government?
\nWho runs an aristocracy?
\nWhat is socialist government?
\nWhat is representative democracy?<\/p>\n
\nWho makes the rules?
\nWhat gets committed in committee?
\nWho can amend what they meant?
\nHow do solar cells really work?
\nWho can drop the veto hammer?<\/p>\n
\nWho represents in America?
\nWho throws political parties?
\nHow do parties pick candidates?
\nWho goes to electoral college?
\nWhat does \u201cmudslinging\u201d mean?<\/p>\n
\nWho is in the president\u2019s cabinet?
\nWho promotes the general welfare?
\nWho plays defense for state?
\nWho guards our trees and corn?
\nWho watches big (and small) business?<\/p>\nView the GOVERNMENT Teacher’s Guide<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"