Amer. Government Ch.1-01
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 In a ________ government, the executive branch of govt. is led by members of the legislative branch and the executive is made up of the prime minister and that official's cabinet. | parliamentary government |
| A _________government is also known as a centralized government | Unitary government |
| The basic structure and principles of a government may be found in it's ________. | Constitution |
| A form of governemtn that is often totalitarian and authoritarian; can be led by one person or many people. | Dictatorship |
| Describes a state that has supreme power within its territory. | Sovereign |
| An alliance of independent states that expressly delegates limited powers to a central government. | Confederation |
| The institution through which society makes and enforces its public policies | Government |
| All things a govt. decides to do like taxes, defense, education, crime, etc. | Public Policy |
| Supreme authority rests with the people | Democracy |
| A body of people living in a defined territory, organized politically and with the power to make and enforce law without consent of a higher authority. | State |
| Theory that God created the state and God gave those of royal birth a "divine Right" to rule. | Divine Right Theory |
| Theory that state developed naturally out of the early family. | Evolutionary Right Theory |
| Theory that state exists only to serve the will of the people and that they are the sole source of political power, and that they are free to give or to withhold that power as they choose. | Social Contract Theory. |
| Powers of govt. are divided between a central govt. and several local govts. | Federal Govt. |
| Executive adn legislative branches of the government are separate, independent of one another, and coequal. | Presidential Government |
| Process of blending and adjusting competing views and interests to find the position most acceptable to the largest number | Compromise |
| Charges brought against a public official by House of Representatives. | Impeached |
| Equal opportunity and equal before the law | Equality of all people |
| popular with the people and minority has a voice. | Majority Rule and Minority Rights |
| Helps insure majority agreement | Necessity of compromise |
| Not absolute or complete (anarchy) and can't infringe on another person | Individual Freedom |
| Worth of individual Equality of all persons Majority rule, minority rights necessity of compromise individual freedom | Basic Concepts of Democracy |
| Presidential and Parliamentary | 2 Types of Legislative and Executive Branches |
| Unitary, Federal and Confederate | 3 Forms of Govt. in Geographic distribution of Power |
| Dictatorship and Democracy | 2 Basic Forms of Govt. |
| The Force Theory The Evolutionary Theory The Divine Right Theory The Social Contract Theory | Origins of the State |
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