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9-10 Grades: Social Studies Benchmarks for Government
A. Analyze the evolution of the Constitution through post-Reconstruction
amendments and Supreme Court decisions.
B. Analyze the differences among various forms of government to
determine how power is acquired and used.
Government (Systems of Government)
9th Grade:
1. Explain how various systems of governments acquire, use, and justify
their power.
2. Analyze the purposes, structures, and functions of various systems of
government including:
 a. Absolute monarchies;
b. Constitutional
monarchies;
c. Parliamentary democracies;
d. Presidential democracies;
e. Dictatorships;
f. Theocracies.
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