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US Government ch 1-3
Vocab Chapter's 1-3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The institution through which a society makes and enforces public policies | Government |
| A body of people living in a defined territory, organized politically, and with the power to make and enforce laws without the content of a higher power. | State |
| A member of a State | Citizen |
| Spreme and absolute power within it's own territory and can decide it's own foreign and domestic policies | Sovereign |
| A collection of Rules imposed by authority | Law |
| A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | Natural Law |
| All of the goals a Government sets and the various courses of action it pursues as it attempts to realize these goals | Public Policies |
| Belief that God created the state and that God had given those of royal birth the right to rule | Divine right |
| Lawfulness by virtue of being authorized or in accordance with law | Legitimacy |
| An agreement to give up to the state as much power as was needed to promote the well being of all | Social Contract |
| The process by which a society decides how power and resources will be distributed in that society | Politics |
| The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable | Value |
| A form of government in which a single person holds unlimited political power | Autocracy |
| A form of government in which the power to rule is held my a small usually self appointed elite | Oligarchy |
| A form of government in which all government powers belong to a single central agency | Unitary Government |
| A form of government in which powers are divided between a central government and several local governments | Federal Government |
| Basic principal of federalism, the constitutional provisions by which governmental powers are divided on a geographical basis | Division of Powers |
| A joining of several groups for a common purpose | Confederation |
| An adjustment of opposing principles or systems by modifying some aspect of each | Compromise |
| An economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods. Investments that are determined by private decision rather than by state control and determined in a free market | Free enterprise system |
| A law which states that when supplies of goods and services become plentiful prices tend to drop and when supplies become scarcer prices tend to go up | Law of supply and demand |
| An economy in which private enterprise exists in combination with a considerable amount of government regulation and promotion | Mixed economy. |
| A commodity or service that is provided without profit to all members of a society, either by the government or a private individual or organization. | Public Good |
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