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**POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT FOUNDATION AND ISSUES**

Packing – concentrating voters with similar political orientation into one district. Cracking –spreading out voters of similar political orientation among several districts to ensure too few votes to win a district. BOROUGH OF STROUDSBURG go to: [|www.borough.stroudsburg.pa.us] Click on //Borough code// Click on: [] Choose a title from the 27 listed. Read it, make notations and prepare to discuss with the class what you’ve learned.
 * Government** – The people in charge of a territory at a given time
 * Regime** – The governmental system and the rules and aw in place in a particular territory at a particular time.
 * Politics** – The process of making collective decisions. Politics takes many forms. It includes what is done within the formal governmental and political structures of society, but also informal interactions as well.
 * Legitimacy** – is the generally held belief within a society, that a government has the right to rule or exercise power.
 * Nation** – a large group of people with a unified Identity that share culture, (though not necessarily ethnicity) history, and strong ties to a particular territory.
 * State** – The territory under the control of a government. The idea that control is exercised by some degree of force.
 * Nation State** – has its own government
 * Democracy** – Rule by the people, but what does it mean to “rule” and who are the “people”?
 * Gerrymandering** – manipulation of electoral district boundaries for political purposes. Goal: Increase voter support, decrease opponent’s support.
 * Local Government**

MONROE COUNTY go to [|www.monroecountypa.gov/monroe/site/] Click on the list and look at elections. Find out something you didn’t know. Read it, make notations and prepare to discuss with the class what you’ve learned.

Define: STATUTE GO to Government – Commonwealth of Pennsylvania click on: [|www.pa.gov/**Government**/Pages/default.aspx] Click on Senate Find My Senator (on the left) Look at amendment SB1182 Go to the House Find my representative Go to Statutes Choose one and review