Class 6 CIVICS What is Government?

1. What is Government ?
Class : 6
Civics, Chapter : 3
By Tsering Chokeyi
Teacher

2. • A group of people
 who takes care and govern the country
 Who makes the decisions and whenever
necessary can also enforce a decision.
What is Government ?

3.  built roads and schools
 to reduce price of onions
 to run postal and railway service
1. to make decisions
Need for Government

4. 2. Government has the job of protecting the
boundaries of the country and maintaining
peaceful relations with other countries.
3. to ensure enough food and good health
facilities to all
4. Government organises aid and asistance during
natural disaster

5. Government also make laws
• the government make laws and everyone who lives
in the country has to follow these.
• Government has power to make decision and
enforce its decision

6. How government
manages to do all this?
By working at different
levels.

7. Levels of Government
National
Level
State Level
Local Level
Central Government
State Government
Local Government

8. Types of Government
• Monarchy Government
• Dictatorship Government
• Communist Government
• Democratic Government

9. Monarchy Government
 King is the head of the government
 king is also called emperor and he
has the supreme power.
 the monarch may have small group
of people to discuss matters with,
 but the final decision making power
remains with the monarch
 king and queen do not have to
explain for their actions

10. Democratic Government
 democracy word originated from the Greek words means rule of the people
 In democracy people rule by themselves
 people elect their leaders to govern the nation
 The leaders or representatives takes decisions, make laws and care about the
citizen of the country
 government is answerable to the people for their actions.
 Democracy is also called the government which is made by the people, for the
people and of the people

11. Universal Adult Franchise
India before independent,
women and the poor people were not
allowed to vote
 Gandhiji and some people were shocked
at the inequity of such practice
 they demanded the right to vote
Gandhiji in his journal stated
that it was unbelievable that a
man with wealth can vote but a
man with charater cannot

12. Women’s Suffrage
Movement
 Suffrage means right to vote
All over Europe and USA, Women and
the poor have had to fight for
participation in government.
 Women’s struggle to vote got
strengthened during 1st world war and the
movement is called women’s suffrage
movement.
 American women got the right to vote
in 1920
 U.K. women got the right to vote in
1928