US System
A system of government in which leaders listen to their people and make the decisions the people want.
What is democracy
What is strategy?
When legislative, executive, and judicial power are all held by different people who do not have power over one another.
What is separation of powers?
An organization made up of many different countries from all over the world that was started after World War II.
What is United Nations?
A leader with executive authority over a municipality
What is a magistrate?
A small area with the power to govern itself.
What is a municipality?
An area made up of many municipalities, usually including both main islands and the outer islands nearby.
What is a district?
The power to make suggestions to the American Government, but not the power to make laws.
What is advisory power?
An organization made up of many different countries from all over the world that was active between World War I and World War II.
What is League of Nations?
An official with authority over a Trust Territory district.
What is a district administrator?
A group of elected officials who gather to make decisions and laws for their people.
What is a legislature?
A group of people with their own leaders who not need any outside power to tell them what to do.
What is a self-governing community?
A group of island leaders from all over the Trust Territory with advisory powers, an early version of the Congress of Micronesia.
What is Council of Micronesia?
An American official with authority over the entire Trust Territory.
What is a high commissioner?
A congress with two house, or groups of leaders.
What is a bicameral congress?
A special arrangement in which the United States was allowed to do almost anything it wanted in Micronesia and could stay for as long as it wanted.
What is strategic trusteeship?
The power to make laws.
What is legislative power?
A group of island leaders from all over the Trust Territory whose power over the American Government increased throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
What is Congress of Micronesia?
A leader who takes his or her authority from a position in government, education, a position as a respected member of the community, and an understanding of the way the government works.
What is a professional politician?
A congress with one house, or group of leaders.
What is a unicameral congress?
An arrangement in which a country that won the Second World War governed a colony of a country that lost the war just long enough to get it ready for independence.
What is a United Nations trusteeship?
The power to put laws into action.
What is executive power?
Micronesia's name during its American occupation.
What is Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI)?
Holds Trials to decide who is right and who is wrong in an argument
What is a municipal judge?