Types of Government
This type of government has a king or queen rules the country and they usually come into power through their family lineage.
What is a monarchy?
This level of government is represented by the Prime Minister and manages national issues and responsibilities.
What is the federal government?
Favouring government intervention and emphasizing equity and equality is this type of ideology.
What is left wing ideology/liberalism?
This provides the fundamental rules and principles that govern the laws in our country. It is the supreme law of the country which means it overrides any laws that are inconsistent with it.
What is the Constitutional Act?
This is an appointed official by the Governor General who works on national issues and provides an independent, non-partisan review of federal legislation.
What is a Senator?
North Korea is this type of government, where their leader has total control of the government and its ruling political party.
What is a dictatorship?
This level of government is represented by the mayor and the council who manages local responsibilities.
What is the municipal government?
This is an extreme political ideology that emphasizes the nation's interests over individual needs. One ruler establishes social order.
What is fascism?
Having the right to practice your own religious beliefs is an example of this charter of right.
What is fundamental freedoms/freedom of religion?
This is a locally elected representative of the people that represent citizens' opinions and concerns in the Legislative Chamber. They debate issues on what should become a law/not become a law and make amendments to current/potential laws.
What is an MPP (Member of Provincial Parliament)?
South Africa is a country where white people has all political power, leaving anyone who was non-white without any political influence. It is an example of this type of government.
What is an oligarchy?
This is where citizens elect members to parliament (lawmaking body) and legislatures (body of people who make laws) across the country.
What is parliamentary democracy?
This ideology supports traditional values, social order and resists government interventions to support personal wealth and traditional institutions like family and religion.
What is conservativism?
If you are accused of committing a crime, you have the right to see a lawyer is an example of this charter of right.
What is legal rights?
When a candidate has no opponents or if the number of candidates match the number of council seats to be filled, the candidate(s) win automatically and no election is held is called this.
What is acclamation?
Saudi Arabia is led by a king and the official constitution of law that governs their country is dictated by the Qur'an, a holy book of Islam. It is an example of these types of government.
What is monarchy and theocracy?
This branch of government is where elective representatives debate, create and amend laws and regulations.
What is the legislative branch?
This ideology supports government owning major industries and resources rather than private/individual ownership to distribute wealth equally.
What is socialism?
If you move from one province/territory to another, you have the right to work anywhere in the country is an example of this charter of right.
What is mobility rights?
This is when a political party elects more members to Parliament or provincial legislature than any other party, but not more than all the other parties added together.
What is a minority goverment?
Switzerland are these types of government, where citizens can both elect representatives for lawmaking and also vote several times a year where they can propose their own laws/amend laws by their representatives.
What is representative and direct democracy?
This branch of government is where representatives of the King and cabinet ministers (representatives of the Premier) are responsible for implementing and enforcing laws and regulations.
What is the executive branch?
This is the historical era that established the political spectrum, where the King had politicians sitting on the LEFT who supported social change, whereas those sitting on the right supported maintaining the established order.
What is the French Revolution?
In Canada, you are allowed to attend a school in your prefered language of either English or French is an example of this charter of right.
What is Minority Language Education Rights?
This is how the process of a bill becoming a law differs from the House of Commons (Provincial) vs. in the Senate (Federal).
What is the same process as provincial laws but requires the law to be recognized by the Governor General and given Royal Assent (formal sovereign approval) and becomes a law after Proclamation (announced by the GG)?