Governments
A form of government where a small group of people are in control.
What is an Oligarchy?
Where the will of the people is translated into law directly by the people themselves.
What is a Direct Democracy?
What are the four major purposes of Governments?
What are National Security, Public Services, Social Order, Economic Decisions?
What is Force?
government run by a single political organization or class that knows no limit on power, goal is to control every aspect of life
What is an Autocracy?
What is an example of a government making Economic Decisions?
Laws regarding domestic or international trade or the distribution of goods and wealth among citizens.
What is Divine Right?
government in which power lies with the military
What is a Junta?
Where a small group of people are chosen by the people to act as their representatives
What is Representative or Indirect Democracy
What is an example of public services?
Things that "promote the general "welfare" or whatever is needed by the citizens.
The state evolved from the family.
What is Evolutionary?
What are the two kinds of relationships between the Legislative and Executive Branches?
What are Presidential and Parliamentary Governments?
What are the three classifications of Government by Geographic Distribution of Power?
What are Unitary, Confederate, and Federal?
What is an example of National Security?
People allow themselves to be governed to maintain social order while the state protects the people.
What is Social Contract?
A country with a theocracy
What are ancient Egypt, Iran, Vatican City?
Kind of government in Great Britain
What is Constitutional Monarchy
A society without rulers, hierarchy or authority.
What is Anarchy?
What is an example of ensuring Social Order?
What happens when the state fails to protect its people under a social contract form of government?
People have the right to seek new leaders.