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Ch 1 vocab
Ch 1 key terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Government | Institution that makes and enforces public polices |
| Public polices | decisions made by the government |
| legislative power | power to make laws |
| executive power | power to administer and enforce laws |
| judicial power | power to interpret laws |
| dictatorship | a government in which all power rests with one individual or a small group |
| democracy | a government in which supreme authority rests with the people |
| state | a body of people, living in a defined territory, with a government that can make and enforce law without the consent of any higher authority |
| sovereign | to have supreme and absolute power in a territory |
| divine right | theory that governments gain their authority from the will of god |
| population | people in a state |
| territory | land with know and recognized boundaries |
| sovereignty | the absolute power within its own territory to decide domestic and foreign policies. |
| force theory | individual or group takes over territory and forces the population to submit. State becomes sovereign and creates a government. |
| evolutionary theory | population formed of primitive families, whose heads became the government. When these claimed a territory they became a sovereign state. |
| social contract theory | the people give enough power to the government and that all political power lies with the people. People can withhold power from an unjust government |
| autocracy | single person holds all political power |
| oligarchy | a self appointed group holds all political power |
| unitary government | all power belongs to one central agency |
| federal government | power is divided between one central government and smaller local governments |
| division of power | the split of powers between central and local governments |
| confederation | alliance of independent states |
| presidential government | a government with separate legislative and executive branches |
| parliamentary government | A government where the legislative branch controls the executive |
| pure democracy | people pass laws by discussing and voting in meetings |
| representative democracy | people elect agents who make and carry out laws. These representatives rule with consent of the people and can be removed by the people at election time |
| constitutional monarchy | most power lies with the elected parliament with the monarch bing head of state with the prime minister being head of government. Prime minister is the head of the leading party |
| Constitution based federal republic | The President and members of Congress are chosen by the people. The President is both Chief of State and Head of Government. |
| Majority rule | What the majority wants is what the government does |
| Compromise | the process of blending and adjusting competing views and interests |
| citizen | one who holds certain rights and responsibilities within a state |
| free enterprise system | an economic system characterized by the private ownership of capital goods, private investment, and a competitive marketplace that determines success or failure |
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Mason Flaherty
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