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10 Cards in this Set
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Government
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made up of the formal institutions and processes through which decisons are made for a group of people
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power
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Governments authority and ability to get things done
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policy
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any decision made by the government in pursuit of a particular goal
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state
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is a political unit with the power to make and enforce laws over a group of people living within the territory
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Sovereignty
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power to act within its territory and to control its external affairs
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politics
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is the process by which government makes and carries out decisions.
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legitmacy
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right and proper
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divine rights of kings
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theory that a monarch rules by the approval or sanction of god
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social contract theory
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holds that the first governments formed as a result of people agreeing among themselves to submit to authority of state
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monarch
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Government is headed by one person such as a king or queen who exersise supreme authority
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