B1Unit 1 Vocab- Government

An unwritten agreement between the ruler and the ruled. People give up their freedom to a ruler in order to gain power and safety.

• Social Contract

• State of Nature

• Human Rights

• State

A term to describe how people would function without society or government.

• Social Contract

• Government

• State

• State of Nature

The rights all humans are born with. 

• Confederation

• Oligarchy

• Human Rights

• Direct Democracy

A body of people living in a defined territory with a government

• state

• country

• nation

• government

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

• oligarchy

• government

• state

• theocracy

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

• Unitary Government

• Direct Democracy

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

A government that is ruled by a king or queen or emperor. 

Power is inherited.

• Democracy
• Republic
• Monarchy
• Oligarchy

Rule by the people

EVERY citizen votes to make decisions on laws and rule

• Direct Democracy

• Monarchy
• Oligarchy
• Dictatorship

Rule by the people.

Citizens vote for representatives to make decisions on laws and rules for them.

• Representative Democracy

• Monarchy
• Dictatorship
• Oligarchy

A government where a select group of individuals hold the power. (Usually self-appointed, elite group.)

• Democracy
• Monarchy
• Oligarchy
• Anarchy