The institution through which society makes and enforces public policies.
What is government?
100
Population, Territory, Sovereignty, and Government are four necessary components of what?
What is a State.
100
An Autocracy and an Oligarchy are two forms of what?
What is a dictatorship.
100
How is power distributed in a federal government?
What is central and local.
100
For the people, by the people.
What is Democracy.
200
Every government has three basic kinds of power. What are they?
What is legislative, executive, and judicial.
200
Supreme and absolute power within its own territory with the power to decide its own foreign and domestic policies.
What is sovereign.
200
A small group of people with all of the power.
What is an oligarchy.
200
This is often described as a centralized government.
What is Unitary Government.
200
The American economic system is often called____________________.
What is free enterprise system.
300
the body of fundamental laws setting out the principles, structures, and processes of government?
300
To Form a More Perfect Union, Establish Justice, Insure Domestic Tranquility, Provide for Common Defense, Promote the General Welfare, and Secure the Blessing of Liberty is what?
What is the Purpose of Government.
300
In a ___________ there is no government.
What is anarchy.
300
This type of government only handles the matters that member states assign to it.
What is Confederate Government.
300
The law that states that when supplies of goods and services become plentiful, prices tend to drop. When supplies become scarcer, prices tend to rise.
What is the law of supply and demand.
400
In a __________ power is held by one or a small group. In a ____________ power rests with the people.
What is dictatorship and democracy.
400
An agreement among the members of an organized society or between the governed and the government defining and limiting the rights and duties of each.
What is The Social Contract Theory.
400
A monarch can be part of a _______________ and _______________.
What is democracy and dictatorship.
400
In a _______________ government the people elect both the executive and the legislature.
What is presidential.
400
An economy in which private enterprise exists in combination with a considerable amount of government regulation and promotion is called______________________.
What is mixed economy.
500
All of the things the government decides to do.
What is public policies.
500
The ________ theory states that one person or a small group claimed control over an area and made everyone submit to their rule.
What is The Force Theory.
500
Type of democracy where citizens are involved in day-to-day government.
What is direct democracy.
500
The ____________ branch chooses the Executive in a _________________.
What is legislative; parliamentary government.
500
The five components necessary for a democracy are:
What is worth of the individual, equality of all persons, majority rule with minority rights, necessity or compromise, and individual freedom.