A form of government in which a single person holds unlimited power
What is an autocracy
100
A form of government in which the legal system is based on religious law
What is a theocracy
100
A system of overlapping the powers of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches to permit each branch to check the actions of the others
What is checks and balances
100
A formal agreement between two or more sovereign states
What is a treaty
100
A group of persons who seek to control government through winning elections and holding public office
What is a political party
200
A form of government in which the power to rule is held by a small, usually self-appointed elite
What is an oligarchy
200
A form of government in which powers are divided between a central government and several local governments
What is a federal government
200
The power of courts to decide what the constitution means
What is judicial review
200
Those powers, expressed, implied, or inherent, granted to the National Government by the Constitution
What are delegated powers
200
The range of political views
What is a political spectrum
300
A centralized government in which all government powers belong to a single, central agency.
What is a unitary government
300
Form of government where those who rule cannot by held responsible to the will of the people.
What is a dictatorship
300
A change in or addition to a constitution or law
What is an amendment
300
Those powers that can be exercised by the National government alone
What are exclusive powers
300
The strong support of their party and its policy stands
What is partisanship
400
A joining of several groups for a common purpose
What is a confederation
400
The idea that the state was born when one individual or group claimed control of an area and forced others within it to submit to that person's or group's rule
What is the force theory
400
A pact made by the president directly with the head of a foreign state; a binding international agreement with the force of law but which (unlike a treaty) does not require Senate consent
What is an executive agreement
400
Powers the constitution is presumed to have delegated to the National Government because it is the government of a sovereign state within the world community.
What are inherent powers
400
Parties based on a particular set of beliefs-a comprehensive view of social, economic, and political matters
What are ideological parties
500
Utmost authority in decision making and in maintaining order of a state
What is sovereignty
500
The idea that God grants authority to a government
What is the theory of the divine right of kings
500
A group of persons chosen in each State and the District of Columbia every four years who make a formal selection of the President and Vice President
What is the electoral college
500
Those delegate powers of the National Government that are suggested by the expressed powers set out in the Constitution; those "necessary and proper" to carry out the expressed powers.
What are implied powers
500
Parties that have split away from one of the major parties