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American Government
Chapter 1 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Government | the institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies |
| Public policies | a government are all of those things a government decides to do |
| Legislative power | the power to make laws and to frame public policies |
| Executive power | the power to enforce and adimister laws |
| Jusicial power | the power to interpect laws |
| Constitution | the body of the fundamental laws setting out the principles, structures, and processes of a government |
| Dictatorship | a form of government in which the leader has absolute power and authority |
| Democracy | a form of government in which the supreme authority rests with the people |
| State | 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 |
| Sovereign | having supreme power within one's own territory |
| Autocracy | a form of government in which a single person holds unlimited political power |
| Oligrachy | a form of government in which the power to rule is held by a small, usually self-appointed elite |
| Unitary government | a centralized government in which all government powers belong to a single, central agency |
| Federal government | a form of government in which powers are divided between a central government and several local governments |
| Division of powers | basic principle of federalism |
| Confederation | a joining of several groups for a common purpose |
| Territory | part of the United States that is not admitted as a State and has its own government |
| Presidential government | a form of government in which the executive and legislative branches of the government are separate, independent, and coequal |
| Parliamentary government | a form of government in which the executive branch is made up of the prime minister, or premier, and that offical's cabinet |
| Majority rule | 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 |
| Compromise | an adjustment of opposing principles or systems by modifying some aspect of each |
| Citizen | a member of a state or nation who owes allegiance to it by birth or naturalization and is entitled to full civil rights |
| Free enterprise system | an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods |
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