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AP GOV CH 1
Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Authority | The right to use power |
| Legitimacy | political authority conferred by law, public opinion, or constitution |
| Democracy | a term used to describe a political system in which people are said to rule, directly or indirectly |
| Direct Democracy | a poltical system in which all or most citizens participate directly by either holding office or making policy EX: a town meeting where citizens vote on issues |
| Elite Theory | |
| Class View | |
| Power Elite View | |
| Bureaucratic view | |
| Pluralist view | |
| John Locke | |
| Karl Marx | |
| Max Weber | |
| Second Treatise of Government | |
| Social Contract | |
| Thomas Hobbes | |
| Consent of the Governed |