What describes a state that has supreme power within its territory?

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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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When a state is what it has supreme power within its territory?

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What is a state that has supreme power?

Dictatorship. Describes a state that has supreme power within its territory.

Which of the following terms best describes a state that has supreme power within its territory?

With Sovereignty meaning holding supreme, independent authority over a region or state, Internal Sovereignty refers to the internal affairs of the state and the location of supreme power within it.

What is defined as when a state has supreme and absolute authority within its borders?

Political sovereignty means that the state has supreme and absolute authority within its territorial boundaries.