Power and Politics
This process involves people making decisions about power, resources, and how society should be organized
Politics
This form of government gives citizens the power to choose leaders through elections
(Representative) Democracy
This document is the highest law in Canada and outlines how government operates
The Constitution
This document acts like a global road map for countries to put in place laws that guarantee human rights
This settler-colonial process attempts to make a group abandon its culture and adopt that of the settler population.
Forced assimilation
This type of country has the authority to govern itself without being controlled by another country
Sovereign state
In this form of government, a small group of wealthy or powerful people hold most political power
Oligarchy
This institution has the final say on interpreting Canadian law
Supreme Court
This Canadian document protects fundamental freedoms and legal rights
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
This law defines how the Government of Canada interacts with First Nations, often in very restrictive ways.
The Indian Act
The person in this role has the most power in Canadian government
Prime Minister
This form of government is often authoritarian, meaning political opposition, rights, and liberties are suppressed.
Autocracy
This system combines democratic government with this hereditary position as head of state
Constitutional Monarchy
A government imprisoning political opponents without trial would be committing this
Human rights violation
This term defines a country whose settler population displaces and dominates Indigenous peoples and their socio-economic systems
Settler-colonial state
These are often paired with rights becuase citizens are expected to contribute to and support society
Responsibilities
This ultranationalist political ideology prioritizes the nation's unity and strength above all else, including individual rights and democratic governance
Fascism
When the governing party holds more than half the seats in Parliament, it forms this type of government
Majority
Charter freedoms in Canada are limited by section 1, which states freedoms are subject to this.
Reasonable limits
The mission to spread religion or "civilization" are examples of this settler-colonial strategy/criteria:
Justification
This term describes a country that is made up of more than one people groups, such nations, ethnic groups, or cultural groups.
Multi-national
The key difference between capitalism and socialism concerns who owns and controls these.
The means of production (land, buissinesses, factories, etc.)
This electoral system awards victory to the candidate with the most votes, even without a majority, which can lead to distorted desults
First-Past-the-Post
When a country commits a violation, enforcing international human rights law can become difficult because of this.
National sovereignty
When someone or a group attempts to claim that the Holocaust was not an intended genocide, it is called this.
Denial