Foundations Essential Question

“What’s government for?”

  • What is the purpose government?
  • Why do we need it?
  • Do we need it at all?

Please post your answer as a comment below. Be sure to use your internet alias not your real name.

34 Responses to “Foundations Essential Question”

  1. mscookies on 26 Jan 2010 at 11:32 am

    Government is for people to know how our government works and how it affects us.

  2. Diose79 on 26 Jan 2010 at 11:33 am

    I believe that the government was created to keep the
    United States in control. The United States need to be ruled it can not rule itself.

  3. mscookies on 26 Jan 2010 at 11:33 am

    Government is for people to know how our government works and how it affects us. We need government so we know how we can help our country work better. We do need government but not as a class>

  4. berxs510 on 26 Jan 2010 at 11:34 am

    i think government is going to be about what,why, who,when,and where

  5. 9400 on 26 Jan 2010 at 11:36 am

    1.The purpose of government is to maintain order in a country so that there wont be complete disaster.
    2.We need it so that people wont go crazy and commit criminal offenses/crimes.
    3.Yes we do because without it there will probably a lot of chaos.

  6. youngb85 on 26 Jan 2010 at 11:38 am

    1. The Purpose of government is to have balance in the United States.
    2. We need it because so there wont be chaos.
    3. We don’t need it all but hey we have it anyway.

  7. Diose79 on 26 Jan 2010 at 11:38 am

    Government is for people o understand how the government works. we do need it to know how government works.

  8. emy17 on 26 Jan 2010 at 11:39 am

    The purpose for government is to make sure that one person have all the power with in their hands. It dives the power into three parts for better results.The reason that we need it is because it helps protected our civil rights that we have since birth. Yes we do need it because with out it we won’t be able to communicate our mind to other people and who would protected our rights for them getting taken away.

  9. halfLash on 26 Jan 2010 at 11:39 am

    The purpose of government is to keep our rights, laws, and privileges in order.

    We need the the government to help and protect our social, economical, and industrial life.

    We do need the government because it is what keeps, or at least tries, to keep everything in order. Individuals can not control a whole nation because that would be problematic to everyone in general.

  10. katurra on 26 Jan 2010 at 11:40 am

    government is to protect your civil right an to kip the country safe and running properly.

  11. princessa on 26 Jan 2010 at 11:40 am

    The purpose of government is to maintain basic security and order.

    We need it because so that the country can be security and have some type of order.

    Yes,we need government because without it the would be no security and order.

  12. Vaniella on 26 Jan 2010 at 11:41 am

    Government is used to establish control or reform people can adhere to, so when chaos erupts there is a way solve it pacifically.

  13. love1 on 26 Jan 2010 at 11:41 am

    I believe that the purpose of a government is to represent the rest of the people.We need the government because we need someone to help us take decisions to the next level. We actually do not need the government because we could get all together and become one to make our voices heard.

  14. XuVe on 26 Jan 2010 at 11:42 am

    A Government is put up so that this country can have a medium if things seem not to stay in order. Basically if anything stops working or goes out of order they will be the hand that will do what it takes to fix the issue.

  15. junior092409 on 26 Jan 2010 at 11:42 am

    The government is to make rules or known as laws and to produce goods and to guide the city or the nation in a good direction

  16. Junior on 26 Jan 2010 at 11:42 am

    Government is for creating laws and keeping everything in order in the country.

    We need a government to keep the people that live in the safe because if there wasn’t a government people would do whatever they want and not follow the laws.

    It depends because if all the people that live in the country respect with other and follow the the laws we have now we wouldn’t need a government.

  17. lp041208 on 26 Jan 2010 at 11:43 am

    The purpose of a government is to have protection of the rights of an individual and to maintain order in our country. I think that we do need it because if we didn’t have a government we would have been all over the place.

  18. antoine on 26 Jan 2010 at 11:43 am

    The U.S government helps control the United States.

  19. YungMel on 26 Jan 2010 at 11:44 am

    The purpose of the government is to regulate what happens in the country and it has laws in which you have to abide by.

    We need it so that people want to stupid things and get away with it.

    Yes we do, the reason I say so is because it wouldn’t be a world otherwise because people will go crazy.

  20. loved1 on 26 Jan 2010 at 11:45 am

    The main purpose for the government is to control the society by giving us our rights and maintaining laws.

    We need so we may have a controlled society and not an enormous chaos.

    Yes we do need it.

  21. patience on 26 Jan 2010 at 11:46 am

    Government is to make sure our rights and privileges are not taking away from us.

    we need government because without it we wouldn’t know how the economy is doing and how it affects us.

  22. 0zitta on 26 Jan 2010 at 11:46 am

    The purpose of government is to protect their civil rights from being violated. It is needed to have some sort of structure of keeping the nation and economy working. I guess in a way everyone need it in some sort of way.

  23. miichoacana on 26 Jan 2010 at 11:46 am

    The purpose of a government is to protect our rights and it is also to provide the safety and to protect the citizens.

  24. NARUTO on 26 Jan 2010 at 11:47 am

    The main purpose for Government is to maintain order over a society. Government is a way of maintaining chaos away from its people. The Government supposed to be in charge of making laws for people’s satisfaction. We need it to have order in our society.

  25. nana420 on 26 Jan 2010 at 11:47 am

    I think that the government is used for “making sure” that everything in the country runs smoothly… I believe that the people do need or want someone else to run society because they need to depend or rely on someone else to make the bigger decisions so they can blame that someone on their screw ups…

  26. eXtremo on 26 Jan 2010 at 11:48 am

    * What is the purpose government?
    To represent us as a country

    * Why do we need it?
    To ensure and to protect citizens rights

    * Do we need it at all?
    Yes. Without it we would have total chaos aka Anarchy

  27. sharon on 26 Jan 2010 at 11:58 am

    government is to protect our rights & privileges from being abused.

    we need the government because it takes care of the things that we ourselves are not capable of doing such as protecting all citizens & keeping everything in line.

    without the government we would be doomed because the government offers us protection from being taken advantage of and also protects us by the laws they create because it keeps things in line and without these types of protection that the government offers a lot of people would go buck-wild because they wouldn’t have to worry about consequences.

  28. goldengirl on 26 Jan 2010 at 1:19 pm

    Government is to be a high power voice of the citizens of the country.

  29. katracha on 26 Jan 2010 at 1:20 pm

    Government is made to keep control. so that we know what we are supposed to be doing and to make sure we are doing it right and that we are safe.

  30. ford on 26 Jan 2010 at 1:21 pm

    i think goverment is to make rules and laws.. and toknow your civil rights. and goverment take care of things the people need.

  31. JoJo98th on 26 Jan 2010 at 1:21 pm

    The purpose of government is to keep our country stabled and in order to protect our rights. We need government in order to protect our country from communism and anarchists, those people who choose to go overboard with society. Yes, we do need a government. We need it because its the main reason why we have our basic rights.

  32. ms550 on 26 Jan 2010 at 1:25 pm

    The purpose of the government to protect our rights. We need it to help us say what we want and need and to keep control over the people.

  33. hakunamatata17 on 26 Jan 2010 at 1:25 pm

    The purpose of government is to know what goes on with our country. To know our rights and to protect ourself’s from being mistreated.
    We don’t exactly need it but it would be good because you can protects yourself.

  34. juke on 26 Jan 2010 at 1:37 pm

    government is to protect our country.