Foundations of American Government
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| show | A scholar of ancient Greece who was one of the first students of government.
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| show | Often used to describe an independent state or country; however, it is a sizeable group of people who are united by common bonds of race, language, custom, tradition, and sometimes, religion.
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| show | A term often used to describe a country whose territorial boundaries of modern states and nations are the same.
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| show | States where the population shares a general political and social ____________, or agreement about basic beliefs, have the most stable governments.
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| show | The institution in which the state maintains social order, provides public services, and enforces decisions that are binding on all people living within the state.
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| show | The belief that the state evolved from the family with the head of the primitive family as the authority that served as a government.
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| show | The belief that government emerged when all the people of an area were brought under the authority of one person or group.
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| show | The notion that the gods have chosen certain people to rule. Many civilizations believed that their rulers were descendents of gods or at least chosen by gods to rule.
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| show | The belief that in the "state of nature," people had to surrender to the state to maintain order. Thomas Hobbes was one of the first philosophers to theorize this.
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| show | A government that gives all key powers to the national or central government. This central government has the power to create state, provincial, or other local governments and may give them limited sovereignty.
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| show | A government that divides the powers of government between the national government and state orprovincial governments.
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| show | A loose union of independent states.
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| show | Involves the interpretation and application of the constitution.
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| show | The effort to control or influence the conduct and policies of government.
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| show | A law in the constitution stating that presidents shall be limited to two elected terms.
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| show | Nations that are only beginning to develop industrially. Their incomes are a fraction of those of industrialized nations.
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| show | A form of autocracy in which the ideas of a single leader or group of leaders are glorified.
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| show | The people govern themselves by voting on issues individually as citizens. Exists only in very small societies where citizens can actually meet regularly to discuss and decide key issues and problems.
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| show | People elect representatives and give them the responsibility and power to make laws and conduct government.
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| show | A group of individuals with broad common interests who organize to nominate candidates for office, win elections, conduct government, and determine public policy.
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| show | A concept that opportunity to control one's economic decisions provides a base for making independent political decisions.
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