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21 Cards in this Set
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made up of a body of people who live in a certain territory with a government over the people in the. territory.
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nation-state
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the power to govern the people living in a nation-state.
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sovereignty
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form of government in which power is held by the central government
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unitary government
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form of government in which power is shared by a national government and state or regional governments
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federal government
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principle of government in which the power of government is shared between the national and state or regional governments
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federalism
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alliance of separate and independent states
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confederate government
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forms of democracy in which the majority vote of all citizens makes the laws governing them
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direct democracy
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all practices by which the people of a country carry out their political activities and achieve their goals of government
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politicak system
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form of governmnent in which political power is held by the people.
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democracy
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form of democracy in which elected representatives run the business of government
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representative democracy
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form of representative democracy in which the lawmaking and law enacting branches of government overlap.
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parliamentary democracy
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form of representiaive democracy in which the lawmaking and law enacting branches of government are seperate.
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presidential democracy
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form of government headed by a single leader who generally has inherited his title
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monarchy
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form of government in which absolute power is held by one individual or a small group
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dictatorship
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belief that government should control all groups and individual behavior to promote the good of the state
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totalitarianism
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political philosophy that exalts nation and race above the individual
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facism
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totalitarian system of government in which the state controls in large measure the economic and social life of the society
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communism
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all the ways in which people's material needs are met, through production, distrubytion, exchange of goods and services.
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economic system
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economic system in which the means of production, distribution and exchange of goods and services are privately owned
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capitalism
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policy based on a minimum of government interference in business
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laissez faire
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economic system in which government owns or controls some of the means of production and determines the distribution of some of the output
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socialism
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