Principals of Government - Vocabulary

Government

• The defining authority within an individual consciousness, social construct or territory.

• The Commander in Chief of the armed forces.

• A nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government.

• The institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies.

Public Policies

• The power of a court to decide and pronounce a judgment and carry it into effect between persons and parties who bring a case before it for decision.

• The principles, often unwritten, on which social laws are based.

• The power of congress to make laws.

• A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

Legislative Power

• The power of congress to make laws.

• A form of government characterized by an unelected leader or group of leaders that hold government power with few to no limitations.

• A Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece.

• The Commander in Chief of the armed forces.

Executive Power

• The principles, often unwritten, on which social laws are based.

• The Commander in Chief of the armed forces.

• A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

• The power of a court to decide and pronounce a judgment and carry it into effect between persons and parties who bring a case before it for decision.

Judicial Power

• The power of congress to make laws.

• The power of a court to decide and pronounce a judgment and carry it into effect between persons and parties who bring a case before it for decision.

• A form of government characterized by an unelected leader or group of leaders that hold government power with few to no limitations.

• The principles, often unwritten, on which social laws are based.

Dictatorship

• The principles, often unwritten, on which social laws are based.

• The institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies.

• A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

• A form of government characterized by an unelected leader or group of leaders that hold government power with few to no limitations.

Democracy

• A form of government characterized by an unelected leader or group of leaders that hold government power with few to no limitations.

• A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

• The power of congress to make laws.

• The institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies.

Aristotle

• An English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism".

• An English philosopher, considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy.

• A Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece.

• A nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government.

State

• A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

• An English philosopher, considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy.

• The defining authority within an individual consciousness, social construct or territory.

• A nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government.

Sovereign

• The defining authority within an individual consciousness, social construct or territory.

• An English philosopher, considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy.

• A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

• The power of a court to decide and pronounce a judgment and carry it into effect between persons and parties who bring a case before it for decision.