Forms of Government
Historical Foundations
Types of Power
State Characteristics
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This type of democracy allows citizens to elect representatives to make laws on their behalf

What is a representative democracy?

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This ancient city-state is known as the birthplace of democracy

What is Athens (or Athenian Democracy)?

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What type of power makes laws and frames public policies? 

Legislative Power

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This type of state power is was claimed by an individual or group by forcing a population to submit to rule.

What is Force Theory?

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The United States is this.

What is an Indirect Democracy?

200

This principle divides power among legislative, executive, and judicial branches.

What is separation of powers?

200

This empire’s form of republican government influenced modern constitutions through an elite Senate and consul system.

What is the Roman Empire (or Roman Republic)?

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What type of power enforces and administers laws? 

Executive Power

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This theory says that God created the state and God granted a single person sovereign and the power to rule over a people or territory.

What is divine right?

200

What best describes a representative democracy?

Elected officials make decisions and pass laws and create policy on behalf of the people.

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This form of government combines legislative and executive powers in the same body

This form of government combines legislative and executive powers in the same body

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This 1215 document limited the English monarch's power and has been an influence to modern law and democracy.

What is the Magna Carta?

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This type of power interprets laws and resolves disputes.

What is Judicial Power?

300

This type of state origin states that populations grew from privative families and developed into government over generations.

What is Evolutionary Theory?

300

Territory, population, government, sovereignty

What are the common characteristics of every State?

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This form of government separates the legislative and executive branches, both elected separately.

What is a presidential system?

400

This period followed the collapse of the Roman Empire and was marked by kings and vassals.

What is the Enlightenment?

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US Supreme Court Justice Roberts and Justice Sotomayor are empowered with this.

What is Judicial Power?

400

Feudalism was this type of state theory.

What is social contract theory?

400

This power interpreting laws that are controversial among citizens.

What is the Judicial Power?

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This term describes the institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies.

What is government?

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This intellectual movement emphasized reason, individual rights, and the social contract.

What is the Enlightenment?

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Arizona Senator Kelly and Arizona District 8 Representative Hamadeh were elected to use this power.

What is Legislative Power?

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Locke states that power only comes from this.

What is natural rights and the will of the people?

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The United States is this.

What is an indirect democracy?
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