Vocabularies
a system of rule in which one person or a small group of people holds unlimited power over the government.
What is dictatorship?
States are founded by God, and the ruler possesses the power to rule.
What is divine right theory?
Government can come in the form of a monarchy, constitutional monarchy, dictatorship, oligarchy, theocracy, direct democracy, and republic.
What is classic form of government?
a conception of something in its most perfect form.
What is an ideal?
refers to the government's authority and ability to get things done.
What is power?
Executive and legislative branches of government are combined.
What is a parliamentary system?
All such states are characterized as having a population, territory, government, and sovereignty.
What is characteristic of a state?
Power is concentrated in the central government. Regional governments carry out decisions made by the central government.
What is unitary system?
Worth of the individual, rule of law, majority rule and minority rights, compromise, and citizen participation.
What are the principles of American democracy?
a process by which government makes and carries out decisions.
What is politics?
The belief that ordinary people could aspire to rule themselves and do so as political equals.
What is self-government?
It ensures national security, maintains order, resolves conflict, provides services, and provides for the public good.
What are the functions of government?
National, state, and regional governments share power. All levels have the power to make their own laws, elect officials, and create agencies.
What is a federal system?
What is compromise?
an idea that rulers are seen as right and proper by important segments of a naiton's population.
Allows people to make their own economic choices about how best to produce, distribute, and exchange goods and services with limited interference from government.
States form when people reach an agreement to surrender some power to a common authority in return for security.
What is social contract theory?
Independent states join together and delegate limited power to a central government. The central government only has powers given to it by the states.
What is confederal system?
It forces leaders to act according to the law and holds them accountable when they do not.
What is rule of law?
In U.S.A, citizen have the right to Earn money, Purchase property, Send income on goods and services, Choose an occupation or change jobs, Determine where to save money and how much, and Open new business.
Made up of the formal institution and processes through which decisions are made for a group of people.
What is government?
States form when an individual or group uses force to make enough people submit to a central authority.
What is force theory?
rule by a few, or an aristocracy (nobles).
What is an oligarchy?
The principle that all people possess a fundamental, moral worth that entitles them to fair treatment under the law and in all aspects of life—political, social, and economic.
What is equality?
the individual rights and liberties of all people, including those in the minority, are protected.
What is liberal democracy?