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38 Cards in this Set
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Nation |
Ethnically similar groups |
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Country |
An area of defined boarders |
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State |
An area that is sovereign |
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Government |
A institution through which public policies are made |
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Public policies |
All of the things the government tries to do |
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Constitution |
A written record of what the government can or can't do |
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Sovereignty |
The ability to make and enforce laws without answering to a higher power |
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Democracy |
The people have the power |
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Direct Democracy |
People vote on laws |
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Representative Democracy |
People elect representatives to vote on laws |
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Legislative Power |
Makes laws |
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Executive Power |
Enforces laws |
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Judicial Power |
Interprets laws |
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Monarchy |
Born into power |
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Absolute Monarchy |
No limit (dictator) |
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Constitutional Monarchy |
Limit on power (democracy) |
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The force theory who claimed control |
One person or a small group |
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The evolutionary theory-how did the state develope |
Naturally out of the early family |
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When was the state born? (Evo. Theory) |
When the tribe have up nomadic ways and began to settle |
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The divine right- who created the state |
God |
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What would opposition to the divine right of kings be treated as? (D.right) |
Treason and moral sin |
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The social contract theory- what did the state arise out of? |
A voluntary act of free people |
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According to this theory who is the sole source of political power? (Social) |
The people |
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John Locke |
Social contract theory |
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Montesquieu |
Separation of power; 3 branches of government |
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What book did Montesquieu write? |
The spirit of laws |
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Adam smith |
Invisible hand theory (father of modern economics) |
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What book did Adam Smith write? |
Wealth of nations |
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Beccaria |
Punishment should fit the crime |
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What book did beccaria write? |
On crime and punishment |
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Authoritarian Regime |
Power is held by one person or a group not accountable to the people |
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Totalitarian |
The government controls all access to people's lives |
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Ideology |
A strict idea about life and society |
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Socialism |
Society controls all aspects of the economy either directly or indirectly through government |
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Regime |
The people rule gov. That's in power |
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Oligarchy |
A small group of people having control over a country, organization or institution |
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Autocracy |
A system of government by one person with absolute power |
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Theocracy |
A system of government in which priests rule in God or in the name of a god |
