Government Vocab

The system by which a country is organized.

• government

• religion

• Ethnicity

• geography

The right of a group of people to be free of outside interference.

• government

• autocracy

• anarchy

• sovereignty

Makes laws; usually elected by the people

• Executive branch

• Judicial Branch

• Legislative

• Supreme Court

Main purpose is to carry out/enforce laws.

• Executive Branch

• Judicial Branch

• Legislative Branch

• Supreme Court

Interprets the laws of a country and applies them to court cases.

• Executive Branch

• Judicial Branch

• Legislative Branch

• Parliament

Power is shared among different levels of government. Ex: National (Central) shares power with the States or local government

• Unitary

• Confederation

• Judicial

• Federal

The ruler has absolute power

• democracy

• autocracy

• parliamentary democracy

• anarchy

One person controls the entire country

• oligarchy

• dictatorship

• anarchy

• democracy

The king or queen has all the power in the country.

• dictatorship

• absolute monarchy

• presidential democracy

• constitutional monarchy

A person in charge of the day-to-day business of running a country

• head of state

• constitutional monarch

• head of government

• parliament