Learning Resource Solutions Grade: VI Subject: Social Science Chapter No.: 3 Chapter Name: What is Government? Milestone 1 Complete the following sentences with suitable words 1 government 2 totalitarian 3 Rules ‘Answer the following questions in not more than 30 words each 4 The system of rules and the people who make and administer them in a country, state, city or village is known as government. 5 The king or the queen takes the responsibility of maintaining law and order in a monarchy. 6 Direct democracy and Indirect Democracy ‘Answer the question in nat more than 80 words 7 Two major types of government are:-Limited government and Totalitarian government. Limited Government subtypes are:-Democracy and constitutional monarchy. Totalitarian government subtypes are:-Absolute monarchy and Dictatorship. (Refer to page number 179 OF LR) Milestone 2 Complete the following sentences with suitable words. 1 Suffragette 2 New Zealand 3 30 to 21 ‘Answer the following questions in not more than 30 word each 4 To protect individual freedom and prevent the government from abusing its power, the functions of the government were divided amongst three separate branches of government, namely, the executive, the legislature, and the judiciary. 5 The Chartist movement was a working class movement for political reform in Britain that existed from 1838 to 1857.This movement demanded votes for all men. 6 Universal Suffrage means that every citizen above the age of 18 is allowed to vote ‘Answer the following questions in not more than 80 words each. 7 Legislature is the group of people in a country or part of a country who have the power to make and change laws. In India, the legislative branch is made up of the two houses-the Upper house or the Rajya Sabha and the Lower house or the Lok Sabha. The Lok Sabha is. also called the House of Representatives as it is the directly elected house. 8 The executive organ of the government comprises the ruling party, the Prime Minister and the President. It executes the laws made by the legislative body. The President is the head of the executive branch. Mount Litera Zee School “Goa ied Cnt fareGrade: VI Learning Resource Solutions Subject: Social Science Chapter No.: 3 ‘Chapter Name: What is Government? ‘Answer the following questions in not more than 100 words each. 9 10 a * Judiciary is one of the three pillars of the Indian Government. + Its the watchdog of the Indian Constitution, # Itprotects the fundamental rights of the citizens of India, * Itkeeps a check on the legislature and the executive organ of the Government. ‘© It punishes the wrong doers and solves disputes whenever a law is infringed. * Allover Europe and USA, women and the poor had to fight for participation in government. * Women's struggle to vote got strengthened during the First World War. This movement is called the women's suffrage or suffragette movement as the term suffrage usually means right to vote. + 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, * The three organs of the government are the legislature, the executive and the judiciary * These organs work independently without any interference in each other's work. © The legislature makes laws within the framework of the Constitution. A tenant has to pay the rent as per the terms and conditions. + If the tenant refuses to pay the rent, the landlord can approach the court (judiciary). * The court may hear the dispute and punish the guilty. If the guilty is ordered to be imprisoned, the police executes the order. Test your vocabulary a) Suffrage b) Secret Ballot ¢) Election Commission d) Constitutional Monarchy, HOTS ‘The Election Commission of india has given an option called NOTA. NOTA means None Of The Above. By exercising this option, a voter may reject all the candidates who are contesting the election in her/his constituency. It is up to the voters who they want or don’t want to vote. NOTA has in fact widened the scope of voting right of an individual. | think it is in accordance with democratic principles and helps to strengthen the democratic values.