Government Vocab

What is a government?

• A person, or group of people, that have the power to rule. They make laws, rules, regulations, collect taxes, and print money

• The group that answer to the president

• A place where pineapples grow

• A person who is a member of a country either because of being born there or being declared member by law

What is a constitution?

• A map that shows where the capital is

• A set of rules that guides how a country, state,, or other political organization works

• The agreement between all the presidents to keep peace in the world

What is an election?

• A set of rules that guides how a country, state, or other political organization works

• The sudden, violent overthrow of an existing government by a small group

• The process through which citizens choose who will represent them in government or what will be done about a particular issue

What is a citizen?

• A person who is a member of a country either because of being born there or being declared a member by law.

• A type of donkey that climbs mountains backwards and upside down.

• A member of a basketball team in Siberia

What is a coup?

• The process through which citizens choose who will represent them in government or what will be done about a particular issue

• How the laws are made in the world

• The sudden, violent overthrow of an existing government by a small group

• A form of government in which the people elect their leaders

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Check all that apply for a limited government

• people elect the ruler

• the ruler can do whatever they want

• the ruler has to listen to what the people want

• the powers of the ruler are limited

Check all that apply: What is an unlimited government?

• The people elect the leader

• The leader can do whatever they want

• The leader has unlimited power

• The people have to do whatever the leader says

• The people do not have to listen to the leader

What is a democracy?

• People have a say in how the government is run. They do this by voting.

• There is a King or Queen that decide what citizens do

• A small group of people rule with almost unlimited power

What is a republic?

• A form of government in which the people elect their leaders. They also elect other people, called representatives to make laws.

• A King or Queen

• The from of government where the citizen is subject to state authority in many aspects of their life.