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22 Cards in this Set
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Government |
The institution in which a society makes and enforces its public policies - by means of power |
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Public policies |
All of those things a government decides to do taxation Defense Education crime health care transportation the environment and others |
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Legislative power |
The power to make a law and two frame public policies |
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Executive power |
The power to execute and enforce and administer law |
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Judicial power |
The power to interpret laws determine the meaning and to settle disputes that arise within the society |
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Constitution |
The body of fundamental laws setting out the principles structures and processes of a government |
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Dictatorship |
The responsibility for the exercise of the three powers are held by a single person or small group |
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Democracy |
The power rest with a majority of the people |
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State |
A body of people living in a defined organized politically and with the power to make and enforce without the consent of any higher authority |
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Sovereign |
Every state has supreme and absolute power within its own area and can decide its own foreign and domestic policies |
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Autocracy |
A government in which a single person holds ultimate power |
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Oligarchy |
A government in which the power to rule is held by a small usually self-appointed elite |
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Unitary government |
A centralized government in which all government powers belong to a single central agency |
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Federal government |
The powers of government are divided between a central government and a local government |
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Division of powers |
Basic principle of federalism governmental powers are divided on a geographical basis |
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Confederation |
An alliance of Independent States |
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Presidential government |
A form of government in which the executive and legislative branches of the government are separate independent and coequal |
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Parliamentary government |
A form of government in which the executive branch is made up of the prime ministers or Premier and that official's cabinet |
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Compromise |
The process of blending and adjusting competing views and interest free enterprise system |
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Free enterprise system |
America's economic system based on four fundamental factors also called capitalism |
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Law of supply and demand |
When supplies of goods and services become plentiful prices tend to rise |
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Mixed economy |
And economy in which private enterprise exists in combination with considerable amount of government regulations and promotion |
