Government
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bcphockeyfreak11 on July 25, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Government | the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed |
| property | a characteristic used to describe matter |
| sovereignty | government free from external control |
| Federal Reserve System | The country's central banking system, which is responsible for the nation's monetary policy by regulating the supply of money and interest rates |
| Brain Trust | Group of expert policy advisers who worked with FDR in the 1930s to end the great depression |
| Great Society | the term for the domestic programs of the Johnson administration |
| monarchy | state ruled over by a single person, as a king or queen |
| oligarchy | a political system governed by a few people |
| aristocracy | the most powerful members of a society |
| arbitary | unreasonable |
| Rule by law | recognition that laws exist and all are subject to them equally |
| code of law | a written set of laws that apply to everyone under a government, a written set of laws that apply to everyone under a government |
| Justinian's Code | an organized collection and explanation of Roman laws for use by the Byzantine Empire |
| democracy | a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them |
| republic | a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them |
| centralized government | a government in which a central authority controls the running of a state. |
| liberty | freedom of choice |
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