A system of government in which a single ruler exercises supreme power based on heredity.
What is a MONARCHY?
100
A government that is ruled by all citizens.
What is a DIRECT/PURE DEMOCRACY?
100
The branch of government in charge of enforcing the law.
What is the EXECUTIVE BRANCH?
100
The three fundamental economic questions for a government.
What is 'WHAT TO PRODUCE, HOW, AND FOR WHOM?
100
The idea of a direct/pure democracy came from this here.
What is ANCIENT GREECE/ATHENS?
200
A system of government in which a single person or group exercises supreme power by controlling the military and police
What is a DICTATORSHIP?
200
A democracy in which the citizens elect leaders to run the government.
What is a REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY?
200
A political system in which the constitution concentrates power in the national, or central, government.
What is a UNITARY SYSTEM?
200
Land, Labor, Capital, Entrepreneurship
What are the FOUR FACTORS OF PRODUCTION?
300
A government headed by religious leaders.
What is a THEORCRACY?
300
A political system in which voters elect lawmakers to represent them in the nation’s parliament; the elected lawmakers then choose a prime minister to head the executive and legislative branch.
What is A PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY?
300
A type of government in which power is shared between the national government and smaller regional governments within the nation.
What is a FEDERAL SYSTEM?
300
An economic system that relies on the profit motive, economic competition, and the forces of supply and demand to direct the production and distribution of goods and services; also known as capitalism.
What is a FREE MARKET ECONOMY?
400
A nation-state in which only one political party is allowed to rule under the constitution
What is A SINGLE-PARTY REGIME?
400
A political system in which voters separately choose the legislature and a president to lead the government as head of the executive branch.
What is a PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM?
400
A political system in which independent states form a nation but retain their power under a weak central government.
What is a CONFEDERAL SYSTEM?
400
An economic system that relies mainly on the central government to determine what goods and services to produce and how to produce them.
What is A COMMAND ECONOMY?
500
Rule by a small group of powerful individuals.
What is an OLIGARCHY?
500
The branch of government in charge of making/passing laws.
What is the LEGISLATIVE BRANCH?
500
The branch of government in charge of interpreting the law/constitution.
What is the JUDICIAL BRANCH?
500
An economic system that combines market forces with elements of a command economy.