Government and the State
The power to make a law and to frame public policies ...
Answer: legislative power.
A form of government in which a single person holds unlimited political power ...
Answer: autocracy.
In a democracy, the majority of the people will be right more often than they will be wrong, and will be right more often than will any one person or small group ...
Answer: majority rule.
Those powers that can be exercised by the National Government alone ...
Answer: executive powers.
A form of government in which powers are divided between a central government and several local governments ...
Answer: federal government.
An adjustment of opposing principles or systems by modifying some aspect of each ...
Answer: compromise.
The belief that God grants authority to a government ...
Answer: divine right of laws.
The basic principle of federalism; the constitutional provisions by which governmental powers are divided on a geographic basis (in the United States, between the national government and the states) ...
Answer: division of powers.
A member of a state or nation who owes allegiance to it by birth or naturalization and is entitled to full civil rights ...
Answer: citizen.
Having supreme power within one’s own territory; neither subordinate nor responsible to any other authority ...
Answer: sovereign.
A form of government in which the power to rule is held by a small, usually self-appointed elite ...
Answer: oligarchy.
An economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods; investments that are determined by private decision rather than by state control, and determined in a free market ...
Answer: free enterprise system.
A form of government in which the supreme authority rests with the people ...
Answer: democracy.
A form of government in which the executive and legislative branches of the government are separate, independent, and coequal ...
Answer: presidential government.
Which U.S. President made the following statement in June 1963?
"The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened."
Answer: John F. Kennedy.