The formal structures and institutions through which territory and its people are ruled.
What is government?
100
Political organizations in which power is divided among a central government and territorial subdivisions
What is federal system?
100
Maintain internal order through police and the legal system.
What is to maintain order?
100
Name two of the four characteristics of a state.
What is population, territory, government, or sovereignty?
100
Government by the people; citizens are the ultimate source of government authority.
What is Direct Democracy?
200
An indirect form of democracy in which people elect representatives.
What is republic?
200
Ultimate, supreme power in a state; in US sovereignty rests with the people
What is sovereignty?
200
Provide means to resolve conflicts through politics and the legal system
What is to resolve conflict?
200
Name the three components of most governments.
What is people, power, and policies.
200
Rulers claim to represent and be directed by a set of religious ideas.
What is theocracy?
300
Political unit made up by a group of people that lives within a clearly defined territory.
What is state?
300
The belief that ordinary people could aspire to rule themselves and do so as political equals.
What is self-Government?
300
Provide a variety of services, ranging from education to public transportation, which are paid for by tax dollars.
What is to provide services?
300
Name three systems of government.
What is unitary, federal, and confederal?
300
Single dictator or a small group holds absolute authority and makes all decisions.
What is dictatorship?
400
Right and proper
What is legitimacy?
400
The ability of people to act and think as they choose so long as their choices do no harm to fair treatment under the law and equal opportunity in all aspects of life.
What is liberty?
400
Protect the nation's people and territory from external threats.
What is to ensure national security?
400
Name the three theories of Government.
What is divine right, natural law and natural rights, and social contract?
400
Dictator holds ultimate authority and government tightly controls all aspects of life-Political, Social, and Economic.
What is Totalitarian Regimes?
500
A form of government in which political power is exercised by a single ruler.
What is monarchy?
500
The theory that a monarch rules by the sanction of God.
What is Rights of Kinds?
500
Make decisions and policies that attempt to balance the public good with the needs of smaller segments of the population
What is to provide for the public good?
500
Name two of the three core ideals of American Democracy.
What is liberty, equality, and self-government?
500
Bases on the idea that there are limits to the rightful power of a government over its citizens.