Civics Test Notes
Rights and Freedom is for
- everyone is legally allowed to have.
- e.g. legal rights, freedom of speech, freedom of religion
civil:liberty
political:voting
social:participation
Responsiblility means you are responsible for while you have right is:
a) obey laws
b) paying taxes
- driving safely
- and respecting others
right: cannot be taken away from you
Someone has a job to making sure u are using your rights
Freedom: no one interferes with what u do with it.
Decision Making: notes
Power: notes
Democracy:
Rule of laws: everyone is subjected to laws to limit what their limits are
Political equity: everyone has a say in what they want. each citizen is equal
Common good: what everyone works for
Personal freedom: def. of freedom
Human Dignity: respect other citizens
Political freedom: freedom to be associated with the gov’t
Being informed and get involved: participation, communicate openly
Respect: manners to others
Political Spectrum
Left: total control
Right: little control
Left to right
Monarchy: one ruler. Nazism, communism, socialism
Oligarchi: powerful few
NDP
Liberals
Conservatives
Democracy: majority rules. Gov’t protects rights of people
Republic: law is stronger than gov’t
Anarchy: no ruler, freedom to chaos
Political parties: groups with similar ideas to run candidates to seek to form a gov’t
-give citizens a way to work/influence
-simplify gov’t
-recruit ppl who agree w/ their ideas
-limit # of things a gov’t could do while in office
Popular vote: total # of voters
Majority: 1 major party w/ 60%
Minority: each/no major gov’t. no one over 50%
Coalition: all parties work towards one thing. Each have similar amounts of share
Canada is a constitutional monarchy
-we have our own democratic gov’t
-but the queen is still our leader
Parliamentary Democracy
-citizens vote for members of parliament and parties
Federal: trade, postal, copyright, defense, EI, money/business, foreign affairs, large crimes
Provincial: N resources, highways, health, EDU, labour
Municipal: waste, public transit, libraries, ambulances, water, city roads
Voting Systems:
Referendum: allows citizens to vote for a specific question
Voting Days:
4 years max
gov’t decides if any additional elections are required
First past the post
-candidates with more votes than others will win a seat in the gov’t
-race to see who is first
Proportional representation
-total # of seats for % of total votes
-every vote is used
FPTP: based on each winner in town
PR: based on party’s performancev
Notes are derived from the CHV2O1 course