Types of Government
In this type of government, the government is run by a democratically elected parliament, and the monarch is merely a ceremonial head of state.
Constitutional Monarchy
____________ ______________s exist when political power resides with the people not with a monarch or an elite group.
Popular Government
The three branches of American government and their three functions.
Executive (enforce laws)
Legislative (make laws)
Judicial (decide if laws are just)
The two English documents that serve as foundation for the American Constitution.
Magna Carta
English Bill of Rights
This characteristic of democracy entails personal and political freedom.
Liberty
Oligarchy
(Olive Garden)
Indirect Democracy
(Representative Democracy)
We elect the president through this group of people.
Electoral College
The revolution that turned England into a constitutional monarchy.
The Glorious Revolution
This characteristic of democracy is taken from the idea that each individual must be recognized and respected as a distinct being loved by God and created in his image.
Individual Worth
In this type of modern government, one person rules with supreme authority.
Autocracy
In this type of democracy, the people directly affect the government's policies and actions through gatherings resembling those of the ancient city-state Athens.
Direct Democracy
(Pure Democracy)
This is the process that requires certain legal procedures to be followed to protect the rights of the accused.
Every American citizen is entitled to this process.
Due Process
This philosopher wrote Leviathan.
This involves an understanding of the political ideas and institutions that shape America's government, an appreciation for America's heritage, and an ability to evaluate current issues and national direction.
Civic thinking
According to the book, dictatorships usually take these two forms ______________ or _________________.
Autocracy or Oligarchy
___________ divides a nation's power between the national, state, and local governments.
Federalism
(Federal System)
The two types of majority you can have with majority rule.
Popular and Representative
(Popular Majority & Representative Democracy)
This philosopher wrote Two Treatises of Government
This condition for democracy provides a standard for judging the majority's actions.
Moral Responsibility
A characteristic of some dictatorships, involves an absolute power which seeks to control every aspect of their people's lives.
Totalitarianism
In this type of popular government, the people elect a group of representatives to rule them according to a set standard of laws.
Republic
The type of society we live in - one in which many differing opinions and parties can coexist freely, the strength of a majority is limited within this society.
Pluralistic Society
This philosopher wrote The Spirit of the Laws
Montesquieu
The three opportunities the government must provide to its people for their democracy to succeed.
improve himself economically, expand himself educationally, involve himself politically.
(Economic, education, political)