US Govt 1

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

• Judicial Power

• Enforcement

• Government

• Force Theory

All the things a government decides to do

• Legislative power

• Executive power

• Laws

• Public Policies

The power to make laws and frame public policies

• Dictatorship

• Judicial Power

• Executive power

• Legislative power

The power to execute, enforce, and administer laws

• Judicial power

• Executive power

• Public policy

• Legislative power

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

• Dictatorship

• Executive power

• Legislative power

• Judicial power

Form of government where those that rule cannot be held responsible to the will of the people

• Monarchy

• Dictatorship

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

Form of government where supreme authority rests with the people

• Dictatorship

• Aristocracy

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

A body of people living in a defined territory, organized politically, and with the power to make and enforce laws without the consent of any higher authority

• State

• Country

• Democracy

• Confederation

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

• Force Theory

• Social Contract theory

• State

• Sovereign

"Without government, there would be no fear and danger of violent death and the life of man would be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

• John Locke

• Thomas Payne

• Thomas Hobbes

• Baron de Montesque