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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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