Bob Jones American Government
Chapter 3 Forms of Government
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| 325707070 | popular government | Form of government in which citizens participate in the making and enforcement of laws and policies. ( Example: USA and Japan) | 1 | |
| 325707071 | direct democracy | Form of government in which the people directly affect a governments's policies and actions. (Also referred to pure democracy) | 2 | |
| 325707072 | indirect democracy | Form of government in which the people elect representatives to operate the government on their behalf. (Also referred to representative democracy) | 3 | |
| 325707073 | republic | State in which the supreme power rests in the the people and their elected representatives or officers. | 4 | |
| 325707074 | dictatorship | An authoritative form of government in which the ruler or rulers have unshared power over the making and enforcing of laws. (Example:Cuba) | 5 | |
| 325707075 | totalitarianism | System of government ruled in which the state has complete control over all aspects of its citizen's lives. | 6 | |
| 325707076 | autocracy | A government rule by one person who holds supreme power. | 7 | |
| 325707077 | oligarchy | A form of dictatorship government ruled by an elite group with supreme power. | 8 | |
| 325707078 | anarchy | The absence of government or law. (Example: Somalia) | 9 | |
| 325707079 | unitary system | A system in which the people give authority to one centralized level of government that then creates other levels of government to help administer the law. | 10 | |
| 325707080 | federalism | System in which power is divided into two or more levels, usually a central government and component local governments. | 11 | |
| 325707081 | confederate government | System in which regional governments retain supremacy while delegating limited power to the national government. (Example:The Articles of Confederation) | 12 | |
| 325707082 | presidential system | A system in which the people directly elect the head of the executive branch independently of the legislative branch; and the two branches are separate and equal. | 13 | |
| 325707083 | parliamentary system | A system in which the people elect legislative representatives from different parties; the winning party's leader becomes the head of the executive branch, the Prime Minister, and establishes a cabinet. | 14 | |
| 325707084 | delegated powers | Powers given to the national government by the Constitution that define the limits of its authority. | 15 | |
| 325707085 | Congress | At the federal level, the legislative branch of government; a bicameral legislative composed of a lower house called the House of Representatives and the higher house called the Senate. | 16 | |
| 325707086 | House of Representatives | The lower house in Congress; representation is based on state population. | 17 | |
| 325707087 | Senate | Higher house in Congress;representation is equal for each state having 2. | 18 | |
| 325707088 | president | The chief executive officer and head of the executive branch in the US system of government | 19 | |
| 325707089 | Supreme Court | The highest court in the land | 20 | |
| 325707090 | bicameral | A legislative branch divided into 2 separate houses. | 21 | |
| 325707091 | unicameral | A legislature only made up of 1 house. | 22 | |
| 325707092 | governor | Chief of the executive branch within a state | 23 | |
| 325707093 | township | A political subdivision of a county | 24 | |
| 325707094 | special districts | Districts, independent of the city and county, especially established to provide government functions on the local level. | 25 | |
| 325707095 | incorporation | Process by which a state establishes a city as a legal government body by giving it a charter establishing the parameters in which it can operate. | 26 | |
| 325707096 | charter | A document that establishes a city's name and serves as its constitution. | 27 | |
| 325707097 | Benefits of Presidential System | the president is directly accountable to the people, and the executive department is independent of the legislative branch | 28 | |
| 325707098 | Drawback of the Presidential System | the presidential system is inefficient | 29 | |
| 325769479 | Muncipality | An urban, local system of government that includes: cities, towns and villages. | 30 |
