Types of Government
2 types of Autocracies
What is Monarchy and Dictatorship?
Power flows from the central government in this structure...
What is Unitary?
The two types of democratic government
What are representative and direct democracies?
In a parliamentary government, the ____________ branch has the most power.
What is the legislative?
Locke believed that every government owed their citizens...
What are natural rights?
A government run by a group of individuals...
What is an Oligarchy?
In this basic system of government, power flows from state governments to the national government....
What is a Confederal?
In a representative democracy, legislatures are chosen by...
What is the people?
Legislative and Executive branches are independent in equal in...
What is the Presidential System?
This man thought that humans had Natural Rights to Life, Liberty, and Property.
Who is John Locke?
Saudi Arabia's constitution is made up of teaching of the Qu'ran, the Islamic holy book. This makes it a...
What is a Theocracy?
In this type of government, there is a strong national government that shares power with smaller state governments....
What is Federal?
In direct democracies, the people vote on...
What are laws/public policies?
In the presidential system, citizens have more power because...
What is "elect both the executive and legislative branches."
Hobbes thought that humans were naturally selfish, would always fight over things they want, and had a right to everything in...
What is a State of Nature?
__________ describes when there is no government and rights are not protected.
What is Anarchy?
In this type of government, a single national government has all the power....
What is Unitary System?
The difference between Direct and Representative Democracy...
What is "citizens vote for laws rather than representatives"?
An example of a parliamentary system...
What is England?
When people agree to be part of a society, they give up some of their liberties to be governed.
What is a Social Contract?
What type of government was the apartheid group in South Africa?
What is Oligarchy?
Name 1 example of a Confederation.
What is Confederate States of America?
People who run the government in this system, usually share the beliefs of regular citizens and are held accountable by citizens.
What is the Representative democracy
The legislative branch chooses the executive branch from among its own party. Therefore they are NOT independent and coequal.
What is the Parliamentary system?
The 6 goals of government...
What is unify people, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote general welfare, secure the blessings of liberty?