Unit 1 Vocabulary Review

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

• Federal

  Government

• Democracy

• Government

• Parliamentary

  Government

the belief that God grants authority to a government.

• Divine Right

• Autocracy

• Unitary Government

• Confederation

having supreme power within its own territory, neither subordinate nor responsible to any other authority.

• Divine Right

• Presidential Government

• Oligarchy

• Sovereign

Dictatorship

• a single person holds all power in a government.

• rule cannot be held responsible to the will of the people.

• supreme rule rests with the people.

• a form of government in which the power is held by a small, usually self-appointed, elite group.

Parliamentary Government

• a centralized government in which all government powers belong to a single, central agency with certain powers being delegated to local governments.

• form of government in which the powers are divided between a central government and several local governments.

• a form of government in which the executive and legislative branches of the government are separate, independent, and coequal.

• a form of government in which the executive branch is made up of the prime minister, or premier, and of that official's cabinet.

joining of several groups for a common purpose.

• Autocracy

• Oligarchy

• Confederation

• Democracy

Democracy

• a single person holds all power in a government.

• a form of government in which the executive and legislative branches of the government are separate, independent, and coequal.

• the belief that God grants authority to a government.

• supreme rule rests with the people.

a single person holds all power in a government.

• Autocracy

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Dictatorship

a form of government in which the power is held by a small, usually self-appointed, elite group.

• Oligarchy

• Unitary Government

• Sovereign

• Unitary Government

Unitary Government

• a centralized government in which all government powers belong to a single, central agency with certain powers being delegated to local governments.

• A government where powers are divided between a central government and individual states
• A government where the head of state is a king or queen
• A government where the head of state is elected by the people