Vocabulary
What is a monarchy?
What is a government in which supreme authority is invested in one who rules for life?
What is the definition of totalitarianism?
What is a system of government in which an elite ruling class (such as the the military, the wealthy, or a powerful family) wields absolute power, often seeking to control every aspect of the people's lives?
parliamentary system definition
Bonus if you know which prime minister Trump met with this week?
What is a system in which the legislative and executive branches are inseparably linked; the candidate whose party wins the most votes in a district becomes that district's representative, and the majority party in the legislature appoints the executive head, the prime minister?
Trump met with the British prime minister, Boris Johnson.
What is a unitary system?
What is a system in which the people give authority to one centralized level of government to help administer the law?
What is due process?
What are certain legal rules that the government must follow to protect the rights of the accused?
What is the definition of a monarch?
What is the definition of oligarchy?
What is a form of dictatorial government in which an elite group rules; the group is sometimes self-appointed and divides the governmental departments among its members?
What is a presidential system?
What is federalism?
English Bill of Rights vs. Bill of Rights
What is a document signed by William and Mary in 1689 limiting the monarchy's power and asserted people's rights
What is the definition of constitutional monarch?
What is an autocracy?
What is a form of dictatorial government in which one person rules with supreme authority?
What is direct democracy?
Also called pure democracy; a form of government in which the people directly affect government's policies and actions through gathering and voting?
Bonus: How many reps does TN have?
The lower house in Congress; based on state population.
9
What is a A society in which differing opinions and parties coexist freely.
What is pluralistic society
What is the definition of a dynasty?
What is a monarchy that operates with hereditary succession?
What is an anarchy?
What is a condition in which a state has no functioning national government?
What is indirect democracy?
What is aka a representative democracy; form of government in which the people elect their peers to operate the government on their behalf?
What is the definition of Congress?
What is federal level, the legislative branch of American government; composed of the lower house of House of Representatives and higher house of the Senate?
What is a system used to elect the U.S. president; each state has a numbers or electors equal to the state's representation in Congress
What is the electoral college?
What is a dictatorship?
What is an authoritative form of government in which the government acts without the people's consent or input.
What is a popular government?
What is a system of government in which citizens participate and political power resides with the people, rather than with a monarchy or an elite group?
What is a republic?
State in which the supreme power rests in the people and their elected officials?
What is the Magna Carta?
A list of demands that King John of England was forced to sign in 1215
what is equality?
A democratic principle, political, or legal parity characterized by equal justice and equal right to vote?