Types of Government
A system of government by one person with absolute power.
What is autocracy?
A government controlled by religious leaders
What is a Theocracy?
The idea that all humans are born with rights, including the right to life, liberty, and property
What is natural rights?
Head of the Legislative Branch
What is Congress?
Following established legal procedures- 5th amendment
Due Process
A lack of government and law
What is anarchy?
A form of government in which the leader has absolute power and authority
What is Dictatorship?
The time period in the 1700s during which many Europeans began to break away from tradition and rethink political and social norms
What is the Age of Enligntenment?
The first plan of government that was weak and was replaced by the Constitution
What is the Articles of Confederation
Head of the Executive Branch
What is the Commander-in-Chief?
A form of government in which the citizens rule directly and not through representatives.
What is Direct Democracy?
Power is held by the people and exercised through the efforts of representatives elected by the people
What is Representative Government?
An agreement between the people and their government signifying their consent to be governed
What is the Social Contract?
Carries out the law or executes the law
What is the Executive Branch?
Supreme law of the land
What is the Constitution?
A form of government in which the people select representatives to govern them and make laws.
What is a Republic?
A government ruled by a few powerful people
What is Oligarchy?
A system that allows each branch of government to limit the powers of the other branches in order to prevent abuse of power
What is checks and balances
Interprets the law
What is the Judicial Branch?
A legal process to obtain citizenship
What is Naturalilzation?
A government ruled by a king or queen
What is a monarchy?
Swearing loyalty to the United States and our Constitution
What is an oath of allegiance?
No one is above the law
What is Rule of Law?
Makes the law
What is the Legislative Branch
Loyalty to your country
What is patriotism?