GSE Standard: SS6CG1

What is the term for "Power is held by one central authority"?

• Confederation

• Unitary

• Federal

• Autocracy

What is the term for "association of independent states that agree to certain limitations on their freedoms by joining together"?

• Autocracy

• Federal

• Confederation

• Unitary

What is the term for "power is divided between central authority & several regional authorities"?

• Federal

• Confederation

• Autocracy

• Unitary

What is the term for "1 person possesses unlimited power & citizens have limited role in government"?

• Oligarchy

• Confederation

• Federal

• Autocracy

What is the term for "small group exercises control & citizens have limited role in government"?

• Confederation

• Autrocracy

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

What is the term for "supreme power is vested in the people & exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation involving free elections"?

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

• Unitary

• Confederation

What is the term for "citizens elect members of Parliament, and then the members select the leader Leader works with or through the legislature"?

• Parliamentary

• Confederation

• Presidential

• Autocracy

What is the term for "system of government in which the leader is constitutionally independent of the legislature; citizens directly elect leader"?

• Autocracy

• Parliamentary

• Confederation

• Presidential

Brazil has a federal system, which means

• supreme power is vested in the people & exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation involving free elections

• 1 person possesses unlimited power & citizens have limited role in government

• a small group exercises control & citizens have limited role in government

• that the national government and the state governments SHARE power.

Which person holds the most political power in Brazil; both the chief executive and the head of state?

• Dictator

• Prime Minister

• Vice President

• President