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Civics

TermDefinition
Government the institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies.
Dictatorship rule cannot be held responsible to the will of the people.
Democracy supreme rule rests with the people.
Sovereign having supreme power within its own territory, neither subordinate nor responsible to any other authority.
Divine Right the belief that God grants authority to a government.
Autocracy a single person holds all power in a government.
Oligarchy which the power is held by a small, usually self-appointed, elite group.
Unitary Government a centralized government in which all government powers belong to a single, central agency with certain powers being delegated to local governments.
Federal Government which the powers are divided between a central government and several local governments.
Confederation joining of several groups for a common purpose.
Presidential Government which the executive and legislative branches of the government are separate, independent, and coequal.
Parliamentary Government which the executive branch is made up of the prime minister, or premier, and of that official's cabinet.
Force Theory One person or a small group claimed control over an area and forced all within to submit to that person's or group's rule
Evolutionary Theory Claims the state developed naturally out of the earliest group unit, the family
Divine Right Theory God created the state and that God had given those of royal birth the right to rule
Social Contract Theory People voluntarily came together and created the state.
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