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Grade 9 Social Studies suggested reading: Unit 1 Government Systems

Government Systems defined

From Brittanica: Any group of people living together in a country, state, city, or local community has to live by certain rules. The system of rules and the people who make and administer them is known as a government. Especially at the national level, a government can be a massive system that encompasses a great number of institutions and leaders. A national government typically includes a president or prime minister, a legislature or parliament, courts, a civil or public service, and armed forces, among many other components. The set of formal legal institutions that make up a government is sometimes called a political system. 

"Government." Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 13 Jun. 2019. school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/government/274610.

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Mapping your Research Idea

Search Strategies

Use some of these advanced search strategies when on the internet to make your search more precise, relevant, and effective.

search for a exact phrase by enclosing the phrase in quotation marks:

"phrase searching"

force the retrieval of certain words by using boolean operators:

AND OR NOT

subtract a word from your search by using the minus sign

-wiki

search for synonyms by using the tilde key

~music

use two periods to search within a number range

1980..2000

search within a site using a colon and the word site

"golden retriever" site:akc.org

search for a particular location

"global warming" location:guangzhou

search for a file type

"elon musk" filetype:pdf

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