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=** Five Purposes of Government ** =

** Protection of Individual Rights **

=   =  **Definition:** The government can not take away a person's natural rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It is the 14th Amendment in the //Constitution //.

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**What does the natural right's mean?** Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness are rights that you are born with. No one can take these away from you without your permission. This allows you to be your own person and no one can determine who you are supposed to be.

** What is an example of the Natural Rights? ** An example of the natural rights is when a person is allowed to worship and follow the religion of their choice because no one can tell them what religion to follow; if someone told us things like that than you wont be your own person.



** Maintain Order **

**Definition:** The government provides a way to resolve conflicts



**What is an example of the maintaining order?** <span style="color: #3924d6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">An example when the government helps maintain order is when two people are arguing over the boundary lines of their property's and cant decide who takes the land; than the government can step in and help them resolve the problem so that both people are happy in the end.

<span style="color: #3924d6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Why is this significan to the stability of a society?** <span style="color: #3924d6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Maintaining order is significant to the stability of a society because if the government didn't maintain order and didn't help resolve problems that their will be a lot o arguing between people and that might even lead to fighting because people won't be able to resolve their problems by themselves.

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<span style="color: #3924d6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; line-height: 27px;">**Provide Public Services**

<span style="color: #3924d6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Definition:** When the government undertakes projects that individuals could not or would not do on their own.

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<span style="color: #3924d6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">** What is an example of public services: ** <span style="color: #3924d6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">An example of a public service is when the government builds a sewer system because if people had to build it on their own it would be very dificult for them and they wouldnt have had the funding to do it ether.

<span style="color: #3924d6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">** Why is this significan to the stability of a society? ** <span style="color: #3924d6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Public services are significant to society because withought it people will live their lives twice as heard, it helps every day life a lot easier.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">** Protect National Defense **

<span style="color: #3924d6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Definition:** The government protects the nation from foreign enemies and attacks.

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<span style="color: #3924d6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**What is an example of national defense:** <span style="color: #3924d6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">An example of national defense is when a nation has an army, navy, air force, and coast guard that are all used to protect the nation from nuclear weapons, international terrorists, etc.

<span style="color: #3924d6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">** Why is this significan to the stability of a society? ** <span style="color: #3924d6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">National defense is significant to the stability of a society because with no national defense the nation will be vulnerable and wont be able to protect itself from other stronger nations that might invade it.

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<span style="color: #3924d6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">** Direct Economic Decision Making **

<span style="color: #3924d6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Definition:** When the government makes economic desisions so that scarcity doesnt affect the people as much.

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<span style="color: #3924d6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**What is an example of economic decision makeing:** <span style="color: #3924d6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">An example of econimic decision makeing can be when the government makes payments to farmers that grow cirtain crops to help them economicly.

<span style="color: #3924d6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">** Why is economic decision making significan to the stability of a society? ** <span style="color: #3924d6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Economic decision making is important to the stability of a society because withought is the economy of the contry will be un-stable and people might start to fight over money.

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