Types of Governments
Influences on Government
Important People/Vocabulary
The Sovereign State
Purposes of Government
100
Citizens elect representatives to Congress
What is Representative Democracy
100
Life, Liberty and Property
What are natural rights
100
First person to suggest separation of powers
Who is Montesquieu
100
Group of people who are members of a state
What is a population
100
Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines
What is defend the country
200
There is a King or Queen but their power is limited.
What is a constitutional monarchy
200
Government should be split so one branch does not get to powerful
What is separation of powers
200
First person to use natural rights like life, liberty and property.
Who is John Locke
200
The area in which a state’s rule applies
What is a territory
200
Highway patrol
What is keep order
300
One person has total control over an entire country
What is a dictatorship
300
Document that proved that no one, not even the king, was above the law.
What is the Magna Carta
300
Powers of the are divided between the national and state governments
Who is Federalism
300
Organization inside a state that controls the actions and policies of the state
What is government
300
Jobs must pay minimum wage
What is make laws
400
A government ran by a small group of people, usually wealthy families
What is an oligarchy
400
judicial law that uses previous cases to make decisions about new cases.
What is common law
400
A system in which each branch of government is able to restrain the power of the others.
What is checks and balances
400
War, negotiation or purchase
What are ways a state gains territory
400
Retirement benefits
What is help citizens
500
The political leader is also the religious leader.
What is Theocracy
500
Event that showed citizens that a monarch can be removed from power.
What is the Glorious Revolution
500
First person to talk about the social contract theory
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau
500
the kind of relationships that states will have with other states
What is foreign policy
500
The voting age is 18
What is make laws
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