Chapter 1 Vocabulary (Govt.)

A state without government and laws

• Anarchy

• Government

• Nation

• State

An institution through which leaders exercise power to make and enforce laws affecting the people under its control.

• government

• anarchy

• state

• country

a group of people united by bonds of race, language, custom, tradition, and sometimes, religion

• Nation

• State

• Government

• Sovereignty

a political community that occupies a definite territory and has an organized government (also called a country)

• state

• nation

• government

• assembly

the supreme and absolute authority within territorial boundaries

• sovereignty

• divine right

• social contract

• government

the idea that people are chosen by a god or gods to rule

• divine right

• sovereignty

• social contract

• anarchy

theory that by contract, people surrender to the state the power needed to maintain order and the state, in turn, agrees to protect its citizens

• social contract

• divine right

• sovereignty

• government

one who engages in the pursuit of wisdom

• philosopher

• theory

• assembly

• consumer

speculation based on study

• theory

• assembly

• regulation

• philosopher

a government that gives all key powers to the national or central government

• Unitary System

• Confederacy

• Federal System

• Constitutional System