Principles of Government Vocab Quiz Practice

the power to make and enforce laws withing one's own territory

• confederation

• sovereignty

• unitary

• homogeneous

consisting of all the same type of people

• confederation

• heterogeneous

• unitary

• homogeneous

people and institutions which make and enforce laws in a country

• confederation

• heterogeneous

• government

• homogeneous

the executive branch is chosen separately from the legislative branch

• presidential

• dictatorship

• government

• homogeneous

sharing power between state and national governments

• federal

• dictatorship

• government

• homogeneous

a loose alliance of several sovereign political units

• presidential

• dictatorship

• government

• confederation

the leader has sovereignty and can't be voted out of office

• presidential

• dictatorship

• government

• confederation

authority rests with the people, who can vote leaders out of office

• presidential

• dictatorship

• democracy

• confederation

the executive branch is chosen out of the legislative branch

• parlimentary

• dictatorship

• democracy

• confederation

consisting of different types of people

• homogeneous

• dictatorship

• democracy

• heterogeneous