Chapter 1 Vocab

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

• Government

• State

• Legislative Branch

• Congress

All of those things a government decides, ranging from taxation, defense, education, crime and healthcare to transportation, the environment, civil rights and working conditions.

• Democracy

• Laws

• Amendments

• Public Policies

The power to make laws and to frame public policies.

• judicial power

• public policies

• legislative power

• judicial power

Power to execute, enforce, and administer laws.

• democracy

• legislative power

• judicial power

• executive power

The power to interpret laws, to determine their meaning, and to settle disputes that arise with the society.

• judicial power

• legislative power

• executive power

• democracy

Ultimate power for one or a small group to be responsible for the basic powers of government.

• democracy

• dictatorship

• monarchy

• state

Form of government where supreme authority rest with the people

• state

• public policy

• dictatorship

• democracy

(384 -322 BC) - Greek philosopher who viewed the lives of individual humans is linked in a social context. He wrote about various types of government and the obligations of the individual citizen.

• Thomas Hobbs

• Aristotle

• John Locke

• Plato

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

• state

• democracy

• republic

• dictatorship

When a state has supreme and and absolute power within its own territory and can decide its own foreign and domestic policies.

• democracy

• monarchy

• sovereign

• state