TCI- Unit 1- Lesson 1-3 Vocabulary.

A product or service that is available for all people to consume, whether they pay for it or not

• Private Good

• Institution

• Public Good

• Polity

An ancient Greek concept of representative government in which the well-intentioned many rule for the benefit of all]

• Polity

• Aristotle

• Legitimacy

• Sovereignty

An independent state, especially one in which the people share a common culture.

• Nation- State

• Government

• Sovereignty

• Polity

The right to exercise supreme authority over a geographic region, a group of people, or oneself

• Institution

• Polity

• Nation-State

• Sovereignty

The ability to cause others to behave as they might not otherwise choose to do

• Power

• Legitimacy

• Authority

• Divine Right

The legal right to give orders and enforce rules

• Authority

• Power

• Legitimacy

• Mandate

: Being accepted as an authority, often applied to laws or those in power.

• Authority

• Power

• Legitimacy

• Governor

. Kings derive their authority from God

• Social Contract

• Divine Right

• Evolutionary

• Force

An independent state, especially one in which the people share a common culture.

• Nation-State

• Coercion

• Government

• Nation

The ways in which a government uses its power to force citizens to behave in certain ways

• Coercion

• Power

• Authority

• Legitimacy