CORNELL NOTES Name: Mercedes Cross

Class: Block 1 Topic: Unit 3 Section 1

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Unlimited and Limited Unlimited Government Characteristics:
Government Power • Power to one person or small group of people.
• Citizens Freedoms are eroded or taken away.
• No controls over a ruler’s power
• Ruler abuses power.
• Different set of rules for the ruler and the people.
Examples of Unlimited • Hitler’s Germany
Governments • Stalin’s Russia
• Kim Jong-un North Korea
• Saddam Hussein’s-Iraq
Limited Government • Leaders are elected by the people and the people can vote leaders out of office
• Citizens can form political parties (Democrat, Republican, etc.)
• Freedom of speech
• Freedom of Religion
• Free Press
• Own property
• Private ownership
Themes I see in the Representative Government, Rule of Law, Federalism, Patriotism
information
Other Questions I may How could a population potentially try to change the way their government is
have about the run if say they’re tired of an unlimited government? And how long would it take
information (Required) to make a change?
Please list three things 1.) The difference between unlimited and limited government
you learned today 2.) The characteristics of an unlimited government and how they’re different
(Required) from the government system here.
3.) Specific unlimited governments.
Please explain how one So here people under 18 technically don’t have all the rights as stated in the
thing you learned today Constitution since they haven’t reached legal adult age, but that’s still more
relates to you. BE rights than some adults in countries with incredibly unlimited systems.
SPECIFIC!!!!