1.3.4 Practice: Living in a Democracy Answers?

1.3.4 Practice: Living in a Democracy Answers

1. Criterion U.S. government

a. Who has power-Democracy

b. How much power-Authoritarian

c. Where power is located-Unified or Central

d. How power is distributed-Presidential

2. The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is when a country has a democracy the people have a say so in what goes on in the country. Also with a democracy the leader is chosen by the people.

When a country has a dictatorship the people really don’t have a say so in what goes on in the country. The dictator just takes over the country and does what they want without the peoples say.

3. I don’t think that a direct democracy would be better for the United States because the people of the united states would have less say so over things that occur in our country.

4. Desirable: If we lived under anarchy we could so whatever we wanted to do without being punished.

Bad: Anarchy is complete chaos because if we had no government and no laws people would do things that we consider bad like murder with no fear of being punished.

5. A. They would impair our military and its actions.

B. Confederacies would lead to chaos.