Vocab
Government
Authoritarian Systems
Non-Authoritarian Systems
Citizenship
100
the process or act of governing
What is politics?
100
Rule of law, leadership, institutions, citizens
What is an essential characteristic of government?
100
A system of government in which the ruling authority is in control of the citizens and the rulers have no tenure
What is an "authoritarian system"?
100
Forms of government in which citizens enjoy individual freedoms and the government has limited control
What are non-authoritarian systems?
100
Member of a state who participates in the political process
What is a citizen?
200
a nation or territory that is considered as an organized political community under one government
What is a state?
200
Institutions : essential or non essential
What is non-essential?
200
type of authoritarian system was very common in Europe 500 years ago
What is Monarchy?
200
the form of government being used in the US
What is Indirect democracy?
200
Something that every American citizen is required to do once a year in April
What is pay taxes?
300
A government ruled by religious authority
What is a theocracy?
300
an institution of the American government
What is the Presidency - Congress - Supreme Court
300
the form of government in which their are no limits on the authority of the state
What is Totalitarianism?
300
the form of government in which every citizen participates in making laws
What is direct democracy?
300
A right that all ful American citizens have but only about 40% use
What is voting?
400
A system of government ruled by one person with absolute power
What is autocracy?
400
concept that all citizens and institutions are held accountable by the law
What is the Rule of Law?
400
the form of government used in North Korea
What is dictatorship?
400
First place that implemented a direct democracy
What is Greece?
400
The right secured by the 19th amendment
What is right to vote for women?
500
Sovereignty
What is the authority of a state to govern itself or another state?
500
the type of government is used in Canada
What is Indirect Democracy?
500
the form of government that is characterized by a one-party dictatorship and extreme nationalism
What is facism?
500
A form of government that is found in only a few places in the world today
What is anarchy?
500
Americans are allowed to be citizens of more than one country - true or false
What is true?
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