Terms : Hide Images
| 7516871743 | Government | Institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies (law or laws) | 0 | |
| 7516871744 | Public policies | all the things a government decides to do (majority party in legislative and executive branches decide) | 1 | |
| 7516871745 | Legislative power | Power to make laws | 2 | |
| 7516871746 | Executive power | Power to enforce and administer laws | 3 | |
| 7516871747 | Judicial power | The power to interpret laws | 4 | |
| 7516871748 | Dictatorship | a government in which all power rests with an individual (or small group)---(more like an oligarchy) | 5 | |
| 7516871749 | Democracy | a government in which supreme authority rests with the people | 6 | |
| 7516871750 | State | a body of people, living in a defined territory, with a government that can make and enforce law without the consent of any higher authority | 7 | |
| 7516871751 | Sovereign | to have supreme and absolute power within a territory | 8 | |
| 7516871752 | Divine Right | the theory that governments gain their authority from the Will of God | 9 | |
| 7516871753 | Requirements of a state | Population; territory (in control); sovereignty (absolute power---no answer to higher power); government | 10 | |
| 7516871754 | The force theory | An individual or group claims control over a territory and forces the population to submit; The state then becomes sovereign and those in control form a government | 11 | |
| 7516871755 | Evolutionary theory | A population formed out of primitive families (or tribes); The heads of these families become the government (i.e. Saudi Arabia); When these families settled in one territory and claimed it as their own, they became a sovereign state | 12 | |
| 7516871756 | Divine Right Theory | God created the state, making it sovereign; The government is made up of those chosen by God to rule a certain territory. The population must obey their ruler. | 13 | |
| 7516871757 | Social Contract Theory | Developed by philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean Jacques Rousseau and has had the greatest influence on US government; People chose to give the state enough power to promote the well-being of everyone and that all political power comes from the will of the people (voting); promotes popular sovereignty, limited gov't, and individual rights | 14 | |
| 7516871758 | Autocracy | government in which a single person holds all political power (i.e. Dictatorship) | 15 | |
| 7516871759 | Oligarchy | government in which a small, usually self-appointed group has the sole power to rule (Elite) | 16 | |
| 7516871760 | Unitary government | a government in which all power belongs to one central agency (e.g. Parliament in Great Britain) | 17 | |
| 7516871761 | Federal government | a government in which power is divided between one central (Fed) and several local governments (state, local: city, county) | 18 | |
| 7516871762 | Division of powers | the split of power between central and local governments (i.e. Conceptual federalism) | 19 | |
| 7516871763 | Confederation | an alliance of independent states (e.g. Articles of Confederation, EU) | 20 | |
| 7516871764 | Presidential government | a government with separate executive and legislative branches (USA) | 21 | |
| 7516871765 | Parliamentary government | a government in which the executive branch is part of the legislative branch and subject to its control (GB legislation picks Prime Minister) | 22 | |
| 7516871766 | Constitutional monarchy | UK's gov't | 23 | |
| 7516871767 | Constitution-based federal republic | US's gov't | 24 | |
| 7516871768 | Political ideology | the coherent set of values and beliefs people hold about the government | 25 |
