Who Rules?
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The Basics
Do the Right Thing
Law of the Land
100
This sort of government is ruled by kings, queens, princes, and princesses.
What is a monarchy?
100
This is a government in which political power is exercised directly by all of the citizens.
What is a direct democracy?
100
This is the method by which society makes and enforces its public policies.
What is government?
100
The paying of these is considered a duty of citizens in American society.
What are taxes?
100
The U.S. Constitution is an example of this theory of how governments originate.
What is Social Contract Theory?
200
This form of government is best described as "ruled by citizenship".
What is democracy?
200
In a presidential governmental structure, this doctrine exists to ensure that no branch has more power over another.
What is separation of powers or checks and balances?
200
This term is used to describe a blending of two or more viewpoints.
What is a compromise?
200
In addition to being a right limited to American citizens, voting in a presidential election is considered to be this sort of behavior that makes society better.
What is a civic responsibility?
200
This Supreme Court case struck down laws that allowed separate public schools for white and African Americans.
300
This is a government ruled by one person who gains power through the use of force.
What is dictatorship?
300
This term is used to describe a governmental structure in which the executive and legislative branches have separate powers and operate independently from each other.
What is a presidential government?
300
This term describes a sovereign population in a defined territory.
What is a State?
300
In a healthy democracy, the majority listen to the arguments and ideas of this group.
What is the minority?
300
These first ten amendments to the Constitution guarantee extensive individual liberties to Americans.
What is the Bill of Rights?
400
A small group of people rule over this type of government.
What is an oligarchy?
400
This term is used to describe an alliance of independent states who give very limited powers to a central government.
What is a confederation?
400
This term describes supreme and absolute rule.
What is sovereign?
400
The division of power between a central government and many local governments is considered an advantage of this governmental structure.
What is a federalist government?
400
This is the basic power of every government that allows it to interpret laws.
What is the judicial power?
500
Monarchies and dictatorships are often described as this type of government.
What is an autocracy?
500
This term is used to describe a governmental structure in which the executive branch is made up of the prime minister and his or her cabinet, whose powers are drawn from the legislative branch.
What is a parliamentary government?
500
This term encompasses everything that government chooses to do.
What is Public Policy?
500
A disadvantage of a confederate governmental structure is that the central government tends to be weak, since it has only the powers given by these smaller governments.
What are its member states?
500
One advantage of this sort of document is that it defines the powers of the government.
What is a written constitution?