Vocabulary
Principles of Government
Types of Government
Origins of Government
Basics of Government
100

process by which people decide who to choose as leaders (NOT VOTING)

What is politics

100
In the preamble, what does establish justice mean?
What is laws should be fair
100
dictatorship where one person has power.
What is autocracy
100
This was the first democracy.
What is Athens, Greece
100
What are the three basic powers of government?
What is legislative, executive, and judicial?
200
term for power divided between a central government and several local governments.
What is federalism?
200
term for a government that is in the hands of one person.
What is a dictatorship?
200
dictatorship ruled by a small group, such as North Korea
What is an oligarchy
200
a loosely organized system of government in which powerful lords divided their land and promised to protect the King.
What is feudalism?
200
The process of blending and adjusting competing views and interests.
What is compromise
300

absolute power by a state to govern itself

What is sovereignty?

300
Which of the four theories as to how governments arose has had the most effect on the United States?
What is social contract
300
Government of an alliance of independent states. Examples include the Iroquois League, the Articles of Confederation, and the European Union.
What is confederacy?
300
Due to the growth of trade and a declining relationship between merchants and lords, town leaders allied themselves with this type of central power.
What is monarch
300
This is the term for the economic system in the U.S., sometimes called free-enterprise.
What is capitalism?
400
term for when the popular will of the people is expressed through representatives (HINT: not representative government)
What is republic
400
Using the words from the Preamble of the Constitution, this describes the government's role to provide services for the people.
What is promote the general welfare?
400
Type of government that has a separation between the executive and legislative branches.
What is the Presidential government?
400
term for intellectual movement based on reason.
What is Enlightenment?
400
Democracy holds that who will be right more often than they will be wrong?
What is the majority?
500

Name two of the three features political scientists use to classify a form of government.

What is who can participate, the geographic distribution of power, and the relationship between the legislative and executive branches.

500
Name 3 of the four characteristics of a state.
What are territory, sovereignty, government, and population
500
term for a government where the executive branch is chosen from the legislative branch.
What is the Parliamentary government?
500

This is the theory that believes that government came to be through time and change.

What is the Evolutionary Theory?

500
This includes observing the law, paying taxings, being informed, voting, serving on juries, and serving in the armed services.
What is civic responsibility?
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