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What is the study of the rights and duties of citizens?
Civics
Name one function of government?
(Keep order, prevent crime, provide services,or manage economy)
What term means states have supreme and absolute power within their own territory?
Sovereign
In what type of government do individual states hold power?
Confederation
What form of government decides that a religious leader is the supreme ruler of a country?
Theocracy
Who were the only ones allowed to vote 2,500 years ago in Greece and Rome?
Men with property
Name two characteristics of a state
Population, Territory, sovereignty, government
What theory did John Locke and Rousseau create?
Social Contract Theory
What type of government id divided between a national government and state government?
Federal
In what type of government does a small group of people have control over a country?
Oligarchy
What is the term for an institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies?
Government
What nation is the 3rd most populous in the world?
United States
What does the Social Contract Theory argue?
That the state was created out of a voluntary act of free people
What term means the absence of government?
Anarchy
What is the government type currently in England?
Parliamentary
What is the term for the effort to control or influence the conduct of government?
Politics
Term which means every state has to have land with known and recognized boundaries.
Territory
In what form of government is power held by the people?
Democracy
What type of government is one in which one ruler has absolute power?
Dictatorship (Totalitarian)
Where did the first democracy begin?
Athens, Greece or Greece
Who are the two major groups of people in the US who try and influence the conduct of government?
Republicans and Democrats
What are the three levels of government in the US?
Federal(National), State, and local
In what system of government does the government control the plans and economy?
Communist
What type of government gives all power to a king or queen?
Monarchy
What is the government term where citizens choose a smaller group to represent them, make laws, and govern on their behalf? Hint: US has this type.
Representative Democracy