Gateways to Democracy Chapter 1

System of government in which the power to govern is concentrated in the hands of an individual ruler

• Capitalism

• Autocracy

• Oligarchy

• Liberty

Economic system in which businesses and key industries are privately owned in which individuals, acting on their own or with others are free to create businesses

• Socialism

• Majoritarian

• Capitalism

• Pluralism

Government structure that authorizes each branch of government (executive, legislative, and judicial) to share powers with the other branches, thereby holding some scrutiny of and control over the other branches.

• Checks and Balances

• Liberty

• Individualism

• Judicial Branch

Individuals who distrust government, believing that free markets offer better ways than government involvement to improve people’s livelihood. In the social sphere, conservatives have more faith in government’s ability to enforce traditional values.

• Democracy

• Framers

• Libertarians

• Conservatives

System of government in which people set up and agree on the basic rules and procedures that will govern them

• Equality

• Social Contract

• Constitutional System

• Separation of powers

System of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them either directly or indirectly through elected representatives.

• Liberals

• Executive Branch

• Faction

• Democracy

Form of democracy in which political power is exercised directly by citizens.

• Populists

• Party Identification

• Direct Democracy

• Oligarchy

Belief in human equality that disdains inherited titles of nobility and inherited wealth.

• Egalitarianism

• Politics

• Private Goods

• Republic

The branch of the federal government that executes the laws

• Rule of law

• Executive Branch

• Liberals

• Millennials

System of government in which sovereignty is constitutionally divided between national and state governments

• Libertarians

• Millennials

• Oligarchy

• Federalism