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11 Cards in this Set
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What is Civilian Supremacy?
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Civilian authory over military authority.
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What is a State?
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A politically organized community that meets 5 (five) basic requirements.
1) Population 2) Territory 3) Permanence 4) Government 5) Soveriegnty |
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What is a Government?
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Institutions and processes through which public policies are made for a society.
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What are Politics?
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What determines which governmental leaders are selected.
Deciding what polices are adopted about public issues. |
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What is a Unitary distribution of power?
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The power rests with a centeral government.
State government has little or no power. Citizens vote for Centeral Officials. Ex: State Governments |
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What is a Confederate
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Most of the power rests with Local Government.
Little power resides with Centeral Government. Citizens vote for State Officials. |
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What is a Federal
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The power is shared between the Centeral and State Governments.
Citizens vote for both sets of officials. |
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What is Anarchy?
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When things are in chaos and there is No Government.
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What is Individualism?
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When the Government does only what is absolutely must do.
The people take care of themselves. |
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What is a Welfare State?
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When the Government takes more care of the people than they do of themselves.
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What is a Social System?
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The Government has ownership and control of principle means of wealth distribution.
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