A representative democracy exists when a small group of people, chosen by the people to act as their representatives, express the popular will.

A federal government is an alliance of independent states.

Every state is a sovereignty because it has absolute power within its territory

A unitary government in which power is divided between a central government and other local governments.

1. In a presidential government,

In a democracy, supreme authority belongs to the

In a parliamentary government,

A unitary system of government is characterized by

_____________________ is an institution through which leaders exercise power to make and enforce laws affecting the people under its control.

An _____________________ is a government in which a single person holds unlimited political power.

___________________________ or _____________________ is a political community that occupies a definite territory and has an organized government.

__________________________ is a government in which the power to rule is held by a small, usually self-appointed elite.

According to the __________ theory, states exist to protect and serve the people

According to the __________ theory, certain people were chosen by a god or gods to rule

According to the ____________ theory, the state evolved from the family

According to the ____________ theory, states formed to survive cooperatively with more than one person running the government

What is Anarchy?

In a direct democracy,

In an indirect democracy,