The institution through which society makes and enforces its public policies.
What is government?
100
The power to make laws
What is legislative power?
100
The power to enforce laws.
What is executive power?
100
The power to interpret laws
What is judicial power?
100
A body of fundamental laws setting out principles, structures, and processes of government
What is the constitution?
200
A type of government in which power is concentrated into the hands of one person, or a small group of people.
What is dictatorship?
200
A type of government in which supreme authority rests with the people.
What is democracy?
200
A type of government in which is shared between a central government and local governments.
What is federal government?
200
A type of government in which power is held by a single central agency. This central agency creates and gives power to local governments.
What is unitary government?
200
A type of government which is an alliance of independent states.
What is a confederation?
300
A type of government in which the executive and legislative branches are separate, independent of one another, and coequal.
What is presidential government?
300
A type of government in which the executive is made up of a prime minister, and that official's cabinet. The executive is a member of the legislative branch.
What is parliamentary government?
300
The idea that people establish the government and give it its power.
What is popular sovereignty?
300
The idea that the government only has as much authority as the people give to it.
What is limited government?
300
The division of powers between the three branches of government is called this.
What is separation of powers?
400
The idea that each branch of government has the power to restrain the actions of the other two branches is called this.
What is checks and balances?
400
The power of the Supreme Court to declare acts of Congress and the President unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
400
The process of blending and adjusting competing views.
What is compromise?
400
Private enterprise exists in combination with considerable amount of government regulation.
What is mixed economy?
400
The democratic concept of equality insists that all people are entitled to these two types of equality.
What is equality of opportunity and equality before the law?
500
What four characteristics must a state possess in order to exist?
What is territory, population, government, and sovereignty?
500
The idea that states that people gave up absolute freedom in exchange for a government that would protect their rights.
What is social contract theory?
500
The three ways to classify governments.
What is "who can participate?", "how is power distributed geographically"?, and "what is the relationship between the executive and legislative branches?"
500
Economic system characterized by private ownership of capital goods, investments made by private decision, and success or failure determined by competition.
What is free enterprise?
500
What are the two different types of dictatorships?