Ch.1 Foundations of Government Review

The institution through which society makes & enforces its public policies

• Government

• Public Policies

• Legislative Power

• Executive Power

The ability to make laws and to frame public policy.

• Government

• Public Policies

• Legislative Power

• Executive Power

The ability to enforce and administer laws.

• Dictatorship

• Constitution

• Judicial Power

• Executive Power

All of those things a government decides to do

• Public Policies

• Legislative Power

• Executive Power

• Constitution

The ability to interpret laws, to determine their meaning, and to settle disputes that arise within a society.

• Dictatorship

• Judicial Power

• State

• Autocracy

A body of people, living in a defined territory, organized politically, and with the power to make and enforce law without the consent of any higher authority.

• Constitution

• Sovereign

• State

• Unitary Government

The body of fundamental laws setting out the principles, structures, and processes of a government.

• Public Policies

• Constitution

• Government

• Autocracy

The ultimate responsibility for the exercise of government powers may be held by a single person.

• Democracy

• Confederation

• Dictatorship

• Presidential Government

The ultimate responsibility for the exercise of government powers rests with a majority of the people.

• Parliamentary Government

• Presidential Government

• Compromise

• Democracy

Supreme and absolute power.

• State

• Sovereign

• Confederation

• Territory