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Group 1: Please use the space below to post your narrative on your "ideal" government. We believe that a small, localized government would be the ideal form of government. We think this because then the governmental powers would be evenly distributed. The government would not have total power over the people. They would have to work with the people to achieve their goals. We believe a democracy would fit us best because the people should be able to vote for what they want, and get what fits the town and the people's beliefs. The government should be strong but it should act upon the wishes of the citizens.

The people need to have some influence on the government if their rights are going to be protected. In order for laws to be passed, the people must vote. There needs to be a 70% majority approval for the law to be put into effect. This will prevent the government from creating laws that violate or eliminate the citizens rights. The government would also be made up of elected officials chosen by the citizens. We believe this would be a strong and effective form of government that would rule effectively and keep the citizens happy.



Group 2: Please use the space below to post your narrative on your "ideal" government. We believe the people should rule themselves, but should still have some governmental guidance. Although people are generally selfish untrustworthy, they still deserve the “god-given” rights. These rights being freedom of speech, religion, press, and the right to own property and the right to life. The government needs to be in a place to keep people from causing chaos, but they should be focusing more on protecting the citizens instead of controlling them. Our ideal government is most like the ideas of Rousseau. He believed in a democracy where everyone in society developed a government together. That way people can still keep their own rights and create a government to keep everything in order. Someone like Hobbes would agree because he believed in a strong central government.



Group 3: Please use the space below to post your narrative on your "ideal" government.

We believe that people are good natured, trustworthy, selfless and kind. Therefore we believe that our government should be involved with their country by listening to the people and forming laws and regulations to insure that the majority of our citizens our well informed and pleased. Our government is based on a democracy because we feel that the people of our nation are an important aspect of our culture and they should have some freedoms and rights such as the right to live, the right to have at least a basic education, right of religion, right to be a citizen, and the right to property. We think that our people should have a big role in our government because they are our conscience of our country.



Group 4: Please use the space below to post your narrative on your "ideal" government. Our government is made just to keep order. Our nation would be like a state in the US, maybe around 5 million. The governments not there to just push people around; it’s just to keep structure so that the country is not a complete anarchy. Anarchy in our eyes is considered as everyone just doing whatever they feel like with no order. Police will only enforce certain crimes and congress will only have power to vote on major events. Laws that will be enforced will be hard-core laws and not petty crimes. Congress will have the right to vote on such things as taxes, just essential things that the country will need to be able to stay strong. We want every person to be able to live, have their own opinion, be able to question, party, and be able to eat. What we don’t want is people just going wild and acting like fools. So our government would alimentally be considered as a small, localized democracy.



Group 5: Please use the space below to post your narrative on your "ideal" government.

We believe that a smaller government with a lot of power should run our government. This is due to the fact that we believe humans are selfish and have the potential to only think about themselves. On the contrary we do think that humans can be able to think about the government and our country as a whole and not only there’s. So to compensate we made our government a democracy and gave the people a fair amount of say in who they want to be running the government. Our ideal thinkers are Locke and Newton because they believed in the views that our government believes in. Locke believed that people should be together and should tolerate each another to make a common idea within the community. Newton believed of a “natural philosophy” that he applied to humanity and to society, the same “natural philosophy” that we applied to our government.



Group 6: Please use the space below to post your narrative on your "ideal" government. Our government will be small an more of a local government were taxes are low and government restrictions are also low. Not to say that government is completely abolished and that we are living in a anarchist society but a small conservative government cutting out useless government entities. Still having local law enforcement and fire departments are government won’t change that drastically from our current government however just enough to lower taxes and reduce government interference. Our government would like to return to the original form of small government that the founding fathers intended for the future of the United States of America.