Government and the State I
The institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies ...
Answer: government.
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.
A joining of several groups for a common purpose ...
Answer: confederation.
The body of fundamental laws setting out the principles, structures, and processes of a government ...
Answer: constitution.
All of the many goals that a government pursues in all of the many areas of human affairs in which it is involved ...
Answer: public policy.
A form of government in which the power to rule is held by a small, usually self-appointed elite ...
Answer: oligarchy.
An adjustment of opposing principles or systems by modifying some aspect of each ...
Answer: compromise.
A form of government in which the executive and legislative branches of the government are separate, independent, and coequal ...
Answer: presidential government.
A form of government in which the leader has absolute power and authority ...
Answer: dictatorship.
The power to make a law and to frame public policies ...
Answer: legislative power.
A centralized government in which all government powers belong to a single, central agency ...
Answer: unitary government.
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.
A form of government in which the executive branch is made up of the prime minister, or premier, and that official's cabinet ...
Answer: parliamentary government.
A form of government in which the supreme authority rests with the people ...
Answer: democracy.
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 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 select group, a privileged class ...
Answer: elite.
A body of people living in a defined territory who have a government with the power to make and enforce law without the consent of any higher authority ...
Answer: state.
The power to interpret laws, to determine their meaning, and to settle disputes with the society ...
Answer: judicial power.
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.
Unavoidable, sure to happen ...
Answer: inevitable.
A mode or system of rule or government ...
Answer: regime.
Having supreme power within one’s own territory; neither subordinate nor responsible to any other authority ...
Answer: sovereign.