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18 Cards in this Set
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going to school |
Citizens |
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making the laws |
Government |
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Jury duty |
Citizens |
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Protecting your state |
Citizens |
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Order and security |
Citizens feel safe |
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Legitimacy |
laws are fair and worthy |
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checks and balances |
the power is divided the president is elected by the people |
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equal application of the law |
Nobody is above the law |
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procedure fairness |
the government has rules to follow the government is fair |
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access to justice |
citizens |
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Kings, queens, princes, princesses, sultans, Tsars (Czars), and other titles that refer to a leader whose family possesses the absolute (total) power in a nation. |
Absolute Monarchy |
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sometimes called indirect democracy or a republic. In this government people elect leaders who then write and vote on the laws for their society. |
Representative Democracy |
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All citizens have a chance to participate |
Direct Democracy |
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A form of national government in which the power of the monarch (the king or queen) is restrained by a parliament, by law, or by custom. |
Constitutional Monarchy |
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In this forms of government, power is not inherited, but usually taken by force |
Dictatorship |
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in a theocracy, the religion is the laws for the whole society |
Theocracy |
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This form of government involves two or more people who control a nation |
Oligarchy |
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this means no government – any rules are just whatever traditions people in the society have, but there is no one person or group of people |
Anarchy |
