Government: Chapter 1 Section 1 Vocab Quiz

Power to enforce laws

• Legislative Power

• Executive Power

• Judicial Power

Power to create laws

• Legislative Power

• Executive Power

• Judicial Power

Power to interpret and determine the meaning of laws

• Legislative Power

• Executive Power

• Judicial Power

The document that lays out the system of the US government

• Magna Carta

• Declaration of Independence

• Constitution

Institution that makes and enforces laws

• Government

• State

• Democracy

Government type in which one person or a small group has supreme authority

• Dictatorship

• Democracy

Government in which supreme authority rests with the will of its people

• Dictatorship

• Democracy

People in a defined territory, organized politically, with the power to make their own public policies

• State

• Sovereignty

• Government

Part of the definition of the State; the power to decide its own public policies

• Constitution

• Sovereignty

• State

Everything the government decides to do- laws, taxes, education, etc.

• Government

• Democracy

• Public policies