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chapter3 secsion 2
5th period
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| sovereignty | is country is one that can rule its self by establishing its own policies and determining its own course of action |
| unitary | the central government have only those powers that the central government gives them |
| federation | some powers are given to the national government and other powers are reserved for more local governments |
| confederation | in this system smaller population |
| authoritarian | descriptive of a system of government in wich the leaders hold all political power |
| dictatorship | a system of government in which absolute power in held by a small group or one person |
| totalitarianism | a system of goverment in wich a central authority controls all aspects of society |
| monarchy | a stystem if authoritarian government headed by a monach king or queen shah or sultan whos position us usually inherited |
| democracy | a system of goverment in wich people areinvested with the power to there leaders and determine goverment policy |
| traditional economy | an economic system in wich families produce goods and services for their own use with little surplus and exchange of goos also known as a substence economy |
| market economy | an econmic system in which decisions about production price and other economic fators are determined by the law of supply and demand |
| command economy | an economic system that is controlled buy a single central government |