Unit 1 Government Vocabulary

The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.

• Natural Rights

• Popular Soverignty

• Capitalism

• SUffrage

A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.

• Capitalism

• Popular Sovereignty

• Monopoly

• Liberalism

An economic system characterized by private property, competitive markets, economic incentives, and limited government involvement in the production, distribution, and pricing of goods and services.

• Conservatism

• Race

• Demographics

• Capitalism

The right to vote.

• Gender Gap

• Mass Media

• Suffrage

• Libel

Domination of an industry by a single company that fixes prices and discourages competition; also, the company that dominates the industry by these means

• Libertarianism

• Criminal Law

• Monopoly

• Sedition

A consistent pattern of beliefs about political values and the role of government.

• Political Ideology

• Demographics

• Socioeconomic Status

• Constituents

A belief that government can and should achieve justice and equality of opportunity

• Socialism

• Liberalism

• Ethnicity

• Suffrage

A belief that limited government insures order competitive markets and personal opportunity.

• Libertarianism

• Socialism

• Conservatism

• Political ideology

An economic and governmental system based on public ownership of the means of production and exchange.

• Liberalism

• Conservatism

• Socialism

• Libertarianism

An ideology that cherishes individual liberty and insists on minimal government, promoting a free market economy, a noninterventionist foreign policy, and an absence of regulation in moral, economic, and social life.

• Libertarianism

• Conservatism

• Socialism

• Political ideology