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12 Cards in this Set
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Authoritarian |
A type of government that controls all aspects of citizens economic, political, and social lives. |
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Confederate |
A government that is made of a loose union or independent and sovereign states with a weak central system. |
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Democracy |
The people hold the power to rule. The people meet to make all the decisions. |
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Dictatorship |
One person holds all the power (dictator), this person is usually backed by the military. |
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Federal |
A system of government in which the national and state governments share power and laws vary between the national and states government. |
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Monarchy |
A government with a king or queen, two types: absolute & constitutional. |
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Absolute Monarchy |
Monarch has complete absolute power among his or her people. Wields unrestricted political power over the sovereign state and its people. |
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Constitutional Monarchy |
Power of the monarch is restrained by a parliament, by law, or by custom. |
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Oligarchy |
A type of government in which power is concentrated in the hands of a few people. Their power tends to come from wealth, social position, or military power. |
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Republic |
A government where citizens rule through elected representatives. |
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Unitary |
A government in which all key powers lie with the central government and state and local governments powers derive from central government. |
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Representative Democracy |
A type of government in which the people elect representatives to make laws. |
