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30 Cards in this Set
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Government |
Institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies |
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Public Policies |
All things a government decides to do |
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Legislative Power |
Power to make law and to frame public policies |
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Executive Power |
execute, enforce, and administer law |
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Judicial Power |
Interpret laws, to determine their meaning & to settle disputes that arise with in the society
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Constitution |
Body of fundamental laws setting out principles structures and processes of a government |
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dictatorship |
Power (politically) held by a single person or a small group of people. |
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Democracy |
Power rests with a majority of the people |
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State |
A body of people, living in a defined territory, organized with the power to make and enforce law with out the consent of any higher authority |
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Soveriegn |
supreme and absolute power within own territory and can decide its own foreign and domestic policies |
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Autocracy |
Government where 1 person holds all power |
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Oligarchy |
government power given to small group of self-appointed people |
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Unitary government |
centralized government all powers to single central agency |
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Federal government |
powers of government divided between central and several local governments |
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Division of powers |
Basic principal of federalism; constitutional provisions where government powers are divided on geographic basis |
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Presidential government |
Executive and legislative branches of government are separate, independent of one another and coequal |
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parliament government |
Executive made of prime minister/premier, & that of officials cabinet |
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compromise |
promise of blending and adjusting competing views and interest |
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free-enterprise system |
economic system characterized by private ownerships of capital goods, investments made by private decision not by government directive, and success/failure determined by competition in marketplace |
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law of supply and demand |
law states that when the supply of goods and services become plentiful the prices tend to drop |
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Mixed Economy |
Private enterprise exists in combination with a considerable amount of government regulation and promotion |
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Limited Government |
Government restricted in what it may do and each individual has certain rights that the government cannot take away |
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Representative government |
government serve the will of the people |
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Charter |
written grant of authority from the king |
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bicameral |
body composed of 2 chambers (2 houses) |
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unicameral |
body of 1 chamber (1 house) |
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Delagates |
Representatives |
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Boycott |
Refusal to buy/sell certain products/services |
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Repealed |
withdrawn/cancelled |
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Popular Sovereignty |
Government can exists only with the consent of the governed |
