The term for ultimate power, that does not answer to a higher power.
What is sovereignty?
100
When a paper cut may cause death, this type of fallacy is probably to blame.
What is a slippery slope fallacy?
100
When the boundary of a nation and a state mostly coincide, this is formed.
What is a nation-state?
100
When there is no government, you have this.
What is anarchy?
100
The type of democracy practiced in some ancient Greek city-states like Athens.
What is direct democracy?
200
The general term for government with a single person having the power.
What is autocracy?
200
"I like chocolate, so all women must too." This is what type of fallacy?
What is a hasty generalization or arguing from anecdote?
200
If elections take place, but voters do not have a choice or their choice is ignored, it is NOT this type of government.
What is democracy?
200
In a dictatorship, the sovereignty lies here.
What is with the dictator?
200
One class of society has all the power in this type of government.
What is oligarchy?
300
The term for a government based on religious law.
What is theocracy?
300
A collection of people united by religion, ethnicity, language, etc. is known as what?
What is a nation?
300
Iranian voters elect representatives. They are also governed by religious laws. Iran is a democracy with elements of this.
What is theocracy?
300
Vladimir Putin is the current President of this country.
What is Russia?
300
"If you don't help me rob this bank, you must hate me." This is a form of what fallacy?
What is an either/or (or black and white) argument?
400
When citizens of Oregon vote directly on a proposed law, they are practicing this type of government.
What is direct democracy?
400
Absolute monarchy and dictatorship are the two main forms of this.
What is autocracy?
400
Ukrainians are divided into Ukrainian-speaking Catholics and Russian-speaking Orthodox Christians. You could say that the sovereign state of Ukraine contains at least two of these.
What is nations?
400
The people have the sovereignty in this type of government.
What is democracy?
400
When a country has a king or queen, but their power is limited beause the people have sovereign power to make laws or elect representatives, the country has this form of government.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
500
When we vote to elect Senators and Representatives, we are practicing this.
What is representative democracy?
500
An independent state needs territory, sovereignty, government, and this.
What is population?
500
Leadership is most commonly inherited from a relative in these two types of autocracies.
What is dictatorship and monarchy?
500
The document that structures a government and spells out the limits of its powers is known as this.
What is a constitution?
500
An independent state needs population, sovereignty, government, and this.