Unit 2: Government Vocabulary

______________ is a form of government where citizens elect the president and the legislature. However, the president works separately from the legislature.

Form of government where citizens have little or no power in their government.

• Democracy

• Autocracy

• Theocracy

• Monarchy

This branch of government oversees the courts and settles disputes between citizens and the state.

• Judicial Branch

• Executive Branch

• Legislative Branch

• Olive Branch

_____________ is a form of government where citizens have no freedom and one person has unlimited power.

This branch of government enforces the laws that are passed by the legislature.

• Power Branch

• Executive Branch

• Judicial Branch

• Ivory Branch

__________ creates the laws of the nation.

Citizens have all the power in their government and vote for their leaders.

• Autocracy

• Oligarchy

• Monarchy

• Democracy

Alderaan has a single ruler who inherits power but is limited by the laws of the nation. What kind of government is this?

• Absolute Monarchy

• Autocracy

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Presidential Democracy

__________ is the branch of government that carries out (enforces) the laws passed by the legislature.

In this form of government, the leader inherits unlimited power.

• Absolute Monarchy

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Presidential Democracy

• Parliamentary Democracy