SOCIAL STUDIES WEEK 7/8-YR4

 

SUMMARY

CONSTITUTION

This is the basic rules, regulations and principles that govern people’s behaviour.

 TYPES OF CONSTITUTION

1. Written Constitution: This is where all the rules and laws which govern the country are written in one document. Example, Nigeria’s constitution

2. Unwritten constitution: This is where all the country’s rules and laws are not contained in just one document. Example, Britain and Italy have an unwritten constitution.

3. Rigid constitution: A rigid constitution requires special procedures before rules and laws can be changed.

4. Flexible constitution: A flexible constitution does not require any special procedure before it can be changed

NIGERIAN CONSTITUTION

The current Nigerian constitution was written in 1999 and it adopts the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights among other things which states that:

All people are born equal and should have equal rights.

Everyone has the right to live, the right to be free and the right to be safe.

Everyone has the right to freedom of expression etc.





GOVERNMENT

A government is the group of persons elected or appointed to govern or rule a country.


Here are some of the forms of government that a country may have:

Autocracy: This is a form of the government in which a single leader or party has absolute control over all the citizens of the country.

Dictatorship: This is a government by a single person or group that is responsible to the people or the elected members of the government.

Monarchy: This form of government usually has a king or a queen as the head of the country.

 Democracy: This is a form of government in which the people have the power to elect their leaders.

Presidential Government: This is a type of government in which the government has three arms: namely; the legislative    the executive and the judicial arms

 Parliamentary Government: This is a type of democratic government in which the power to make and execute laws is held by a parliament.




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