Chapter 1 Vocab

a state without government and laws

• dictatorship

• democracy

• anarchy

• sovereignty

the supreme & absolute authority within territorial boundaries

• government

• nation

• dictatorship

• sovereignty

an institution through which leaders exercise power to make and enforce laws affecting the people under its control

• divine right

• nation

• state

• government

A govt. that gives all key powers to a national or central govt

• federal system

• unitary system

• confederate system

• democratic system

A system of govt in which power is in the hands of one person who has total control

• dictatorship

• oligarchy

• monarchy

• democracy

a govt in which voters hold sovereign power, elected representatives, responsible to the people, exercise that power.

• oligarchy

• republic

• monarchy

• democracy

A political community that occupies a definite territory & has an organized govt.

• nation

• soverieignty

• government

• state

A group of people united by bonds of race, language, custom, tradition, & sometimes religion

• state

• Country

• nation

• territory

theory that by contract, people surrender to the state the power needed to maintain order & the state in turn, agrees to protect its citizens

• divine right

• force theory

• evolutionary theory

• social contract theory

The idea that people are chosen by a god or gods to rule

• Evolutionary theory

• divine right theory

• social contract theory

• force theory