Notes of Chapter 3 What is Government? Class 6th Civics
GovernmentWork of a Government
• It make decisions and get things done.
• The government also takes action on many social issues.
• It does other important things such as running postal and railway services.
• It is responsible for ensuring that all its citizens have enough to eat and have good health facilities.
• If there is a dispute or if someone has committed a crime you find people in a court, a part of the government.
How various tasks are performed by the Government
• Governments do this on behalf of their people by exercising leadership, taking decisions and implementing these among all the people living in their territory.
Levels of a Government
• Local Level: Governments in village, town or locality.
• State Level: Governments that covers an entire state like Haryana or Assam.
• National Level: Government for the entire nation.
Laws and the government
• The government makes laws and everyone who lives in the country has to follow these.
• Without these laws the government's power to make decisions is not of much use.
Types of Government
Monarchy
• This is form of government in which king or queen has the power to make decisions and run the government.
• The monarch have a small group of people to discuss matters with, but the final decision-making power remains with the monarch.
Democracy and Democratic government
• Democracy is rule by the people.
→ The basic idea is that people rule themselves by participating in the making of these rules.
Representatives Democracies
• It is type of democracy in which people do not participate directly but, instead, choose their representatives through an election process.
Voting Rights
• In their earliest forms governments allowed only men who owned property and were educated, to vote.
Universal adult franchise
• A government cannot call itself democratic unless it allows what is known as universal adult franchise.
• This means that all adults in the country are allowed to vote.