Unit 1 Vocabulary

Sovereign power is held by those who are eligible to vote, while political power is exercised by representatives chosen by citizens.

• Democracy

• Theocracy

• Republic

• Oligarchy

The common term for authoritarian governments; they can be ruled by an autocrat (one person) or a group of military leaders.

• Dictatorship

• Republic

• Fascism

• Communism

A system of government where all governmental power rests in one central government.

• Confederal System

• Autocracy

• Unitary System

• Federal System

A type of government in which all governmental power rests in the hands of a single leader.

• Democracy

• Theocracy

• Autocracy

• Oligarchy

A system of government made up of a loose association of states where the individual states hold most of the power and the central government is very weak.

• Unitary System

• Federal System

• Confederal System

The executive branch and legislative branch are separate and independent from one another, but co-equal. Elections for each branch are held separately.

• Parliamentary System

• Unitary System

• Federal System

• Presidential System

Government in which the citizens of the country hold all the power.

• Democracy

• Autocracy

• Theocracy

• Oligarchy

A totalitarian system of government in which a single authoritarian leader controls state owned means of production.

• Fascism

• Totalitarianism

• Nationalism

• Communism

Fascist dictator of the Nazi Party in Germany leading into and during World War II.

• Benito Mussolini

• Adolf Hitler

• Joseph Stalin

A system of government in which power is shared or divided between a central government and state governments.

• Unitary System

• Federal System

• Confederal System

• Presidential System