Warm Up Exercise - Government - 10 Tech

Which of the following system of voting is used by Jamaica

• Proportional Representation system

• First Past the Post system

• Election system

Rule by representatives voted by the people. The representatives choose the leader. (Prime Minister)

• Theocracy
• Republic
• Totalitarian
• Parliamentary

a body of voters in a specified area who elect a representative to a legislative body.

• Constituencies

• absolute majority of votes

• majoritarian system

• plurality system

An electoral system where the candidate with the most votes wins regardless of whether that person has a majority of the votes cast; there is no runoff election.

• first-past-the-post system

• multimember district (MMD)

• proportional representation

• open party list

An election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.

• proportional representation

• plurality system

• majoritarian system

• first-past-the-post system

What is a government?

• a group of corporations that control laws
• a group of people who overthrow the leaders
• a nation that has no leaders 
• a person or group of people who control a country

The word democracy means:

• rule of one
• rule by few
• rule by the people
• rule by the wealthy

Which government gives the people the power?

• Theocracy

• Monarchy

• Dictatorship

• Democracy

Which type of government has a king and/or queen as its' leader?

• Monarchy

• Democracy

• Theocracy

• Dictatorship

Why do the individual voters have more power in a democracy than they do in an monarchy?

• kings are always poor rulers

• the voters get to choose people that make the laws

• a small group of people is in charge instead of one