Unitary and Federal Government

Introduction

Governments were classified on the bases of the number of rulers and the kind of rulership, the degree of citizen participation in decision-making regarding public affairs, and the institutional relationship between the executive and the legislature. In this topic, governments would be classified further into unitary and federal governments depending on the territorial distribution of governments powers.

Task

At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:

1. Identify the function between Unitary and Federal form of government.

2. Describe the differences between Unitary and Federal form of government.

3. Make a Venn diagram about the differences and similarities, advantages and disadvantages of Unitary and Federal form of government.

Process

Activity:

1. Students click the link below and read the article

What is the difference between unitary and federal systems? | eNotes

https://www.enotes.com/...help/wat-iz-differnce-between-unitary-federal…..

2. Click the link below and watch it.

Chapter 9 : Unitary and Federal Governments - YouTube

▶ 2:38

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Huiwg_elBBg

3..From the article, the students define the differences and similarities, advantages and disadvantages of Unitary and Federal form of government.

4. Make a venn diagram about the differences and similarities, advantages and disadvantages of Unitary and Federal form of government.

Evaluation

				Rubrics Content 10 pts. Creativeness 10 pts. Timeliness 5 pts. Easy to understand 5 pts.
				Over all 30 pts.

Conclusion

We learned today that the Unitary is one which the central or national government is supreme, possessing complete governmental powers. The existence of only one constitution and only one government throughout the country. And Federal is one in which governmental powers are by the common sovereign distributed between a central government and local government, each being supreme with its own powers. In contrast to the unitary system, the federal government has also two constitutions and the existence of two governments. The disadvantage of both system is that the Unitary is the uniformity of laws and public policies and Federalism unites into a powerful state a vast territory and a large population composed of diverse ethnic nationalities without extinguishing their separate identities. The disadvantage is that the Unitary , the centralization of governmental powers in the national governmental, with full authority to make o unmake local governments units at will may lead to an abuse of authority and thereby open the floodgate towards dictatorship and then Federal, the overlapping of federal and state functions and its concomitant duplicity of administrative agencies and personnel is an economic burden on the shoulder of the taxpayers.