Government Systems

The lawmaking branch of a government

• Prime minister

• Legislature

• Autocratic

• Political party

Title often given to the head of government in a parliamentary democracy

• head of government

• bicameral

• Prime minister

• sovereign

Having a legislature divided into an upper and lower house

• political party

• monarchy

• parliamentary democracy

• bicameral

A government were political authority restswith a nation's citizens

• democracy

• head of state

• executive

• personal freedoms

An organization which represents a specific political agenda and socioeconomic positions within a given nation

• political party

• head of government

• prime minister

• legislature

Ceremonial position with limitede government power; often reserved for a monarch

• head of state

• executive

• soverign

• personal freedoms

Basic rights given to citizens that include the right to vote, equal rights, and freedom of the press, speech, and religion.

• presidential democracy

• personal freedoms

• autocratic

• prime minister

form government where political authority rests with a single leader

• autocratic

• monarchy

• bicameral

• democracy

Ruled by a king or queen

• monarcy

• democracy

• oligarchy

• headof government

The executive and legislative branches are separate bodies electedindependently by the citizens through the voting process.

• democracy

• prime minister

• presidential democracy

• sovereign