Civics Unit 1 test

Constitutional monarchy

• Democracy includes the public in the process of decision-making while the monarchy system does not include people while making decisions

• A system of government that is ruled by a King or Queen whose power is limited by its country's constitution.

• The British Monarchy is known as a constitutional monarchy

• When a group of people or nations form an alliance

Federation

• an organization or group within which smaller divisions have some degree of internal autonomy.

• a group of states with a central government but independence in internal affairs.

• The federate stated that won over the anti-federalists.

• A political system in which at least two territorial levels of government share sovereign constitutional authority over their respective division joint share the law-making powers.

Presidential democracy

• A system of government in which the president is constitutionally independent of the legislature

• a democratic system is which there are some things over which the people have no say.

• the citizens vote for a president who becomes the head of state

• freedom, respect for human rights and the principle of holding periodic and genuine elections by universal suffrage

Parliamentary democracy

• citizens elect the members of the legislative branch (usually called a “parliament”), which then chooses the chief executive

• of, relating to, or enacted by a parliament

• Form of government derives their democratic legitimacy from their ability to command the support of a majority of the legislature, to which they are held accountable

• the president is elected as both the head of government and the head of state. This is in contrast to most parliamentary governments where the head of state is separate from the head of government and plays a largely symbolic role.

Republic

• By definition, a republic is a representative form of government that is ruled according to a charter, or constitution, and a democracy is a government that is ruled according to the will of the majority.

• he founders did not invent the concept of consent of the governed, nor was America the first democracy or republic

• a form of government in which the people elect, or choose, their leaders

• A form of government in which a state is ruled by representatives of the citizens body.

Direct Democracy

• a form of democracy in which all laws and policies imposed by governments are determined by the people themselves, rather than by representatives who are elected by the people.

• Form of democracy in which the electorate decided on policy initiatives without elected representatives as proxies,

• Representative democracy is a type of democracy where representatives are elected by the public

• a type of democratic government in which voters choose delegates to create the laws of government on their behalf

Indirect democracy

• referendum, ballot initiative, and recall vote.

• when citizens elect representatives to make laws for them.

• a type of democratic government in which voters choose delegates to create the laws of government on their behalf

Unitary state

• A system of political organization in which most of all the governing power resides in a central government.

• a state where laws are administered uniformly by one central government

• power is not shared between states, counties, or provinces

• A unitary state is a state whose three organs of state are ruled constitutionally as one unit, with central legislature.

Autocratic

• relating to a ruler who has absolute power.

• Autocratic describes a way of ruling, but not in a nice way

• taking no account of other people's wishes or opinions; domineering.

• A government in which one person has all the power

Theocracy

• a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.

• the commonwealth of Israel from the time of Moses until the election of Saul as king.

• A government that recognizes God or a divine being as Ultimate Authority

• A theocracy is a state that is governed by a government that derives its authority directly from a religion, usually invoking the authority of a religious deity and basing their laws on religious texts.