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The governing body of a nation, state, or community
Government
Unable to be taken away
Unalienable
A group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere
Colony
A government in which one leader or group of people holds absolute power
Authoritarian Government
A system of governing in which the ruler's power is limited by law
Constitutional Monarchy
Supreme power or authority
Sovereignty
An agreement among people in a society with a government
Social Contract
An agreement, or contract, among a group of people
Compact
A government in which power is in the hands of a single, hereditary ruler (a king or a queen)
Monarchy
A system of government in which the head of state is a hereditary position and the king or queen has almost complete power
Absolute Monarchy
Government in which the people hold ruling power
Democracy
political philosophy where the means of production, are regulated by the state
Socialism
means having complete, absolute power and demanding that people obey completely without caring about anyone else's opinions
Autocracy
A political system in which the government has total control over the lives of individual citizens
Totalitarianism
Leviathan author who wrote about the State of Nature
Thomas Hobbes
A form of government in which citizens rule directly and not through representatives
Direct Democracy
A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England (that's a hint bruh). They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay
Puritans
People want to be as free as possible to make their own decisions
Liberty (biberty)
Absence of government
Anarchy
Believed if the rights of people were not being protected, the government should be overthrown
John Locke
A system of government in which citizens elect representatives, or leaders, to make decisions about the laws for all the people
Representative Democracy
Population, territory, laws followed in that territory and government =
Sovereign State
A form of government in which the leader has absolute power and authority, and usually takes power by force
Dictatorship
Ordinances
sharing a common border, touching, or being next to something in space or time as in states
Contiguous