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26 Cards in this Set
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Regime |
A government. A system or planned way of doing things, specifically one imposed from above |
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Kingship |
The state or position of being a king |
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Tyranny |
A cruel or oppressive government or rule |
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Aristocracy |
A form of government that places the strength in the hands of a small, privilege ruling class, the aristocrats |
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Oligarchy |
A form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people. |
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Polity |
An indefinite political entity- any group of people who have a collective identity, who are organized by some sort of institutionalized social relations, and have a capacity to mobilize resources |
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Democracy |
A form of government in which people have the authority to choose their governing legislation. |
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Tyranny of majority |
The majority of electorate pursues exclusively its own objectives at the expense of those of the minority factions |
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Equality |
A state of affairs in which all people in the society have the same status in possibly all aspects |
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Liberty |
The ability to do as one wishes. Free from oppressive restrictions |
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Direct democracy |
A form of democracy in which people decide on policy initiatives directly. (Think us) |
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Parliamentary democracy |
A system of democrative governance of a state where the executive deprives its democratic legitimacy from its ability to command the confidence of the legislature, typically a parliament, and is also held accountable for that parliament |
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Republican |
A form of government that forms republican views (trump, right wing) |
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Liberal democracy |
A political ideology of governemnt in which representative democracy operates under the principals of liberalism |
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Private sphere |
A certain sector of societal life in which an individual enjoys a degree of authority, unhampered by unterventions from government or other institutions |
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Liberalism |
A political and moral philosophy based on liberty (freedom), consent of the governed and equality before the law |
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Natural rights |
The fundamental human rights that naturalist believe are inherently natural. Rights to life, freedom, freedom from torture etc. |
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Utilitarianism |
The ideology that laws and rights are produced from the law or rights utility ( how valuable it is to human happiness) |
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Constitutionalism |
A compound of ideas, attitudes, and patterns of behavior elaborating the principle that the authority government derives from and is limited by a body of fundamental law |
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Constitution |
A set of rules that authoritatively established both the structure and the fundamental principles of the political regime |
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Legislative power |
The power to make a law or policy |
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Executive power |
The power to "execute" or administer that law or policy |
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Judicial power |
The power to settle questions about specific violations of law and to choose a suitable punishment from among those permitted in the relevant legislation for those found guilty |
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4 major functions of the constitution |
1- establish what person or persins will exercise the various forms of political authority 2- authoritative division of powers between nation and regional governments in federal countries 3- delineate the limits of a governmental power 4- provide an orderly way to make changes to the constitution itself. |
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Constitutional convention |
A constitutional rule based on implicit political agreement and enforced in the political arena rather than by the courts |
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Constitutional law |
Rules of constiutional nature that are enforced by courts. Organic stature and entrenched consitutional acts |
