govt cpt 1
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- made up of a body of people who live in a certain territory with a government over the people in the. territory.
- nation-state
- the power to govern the people living in a nation-state.
- sovereignty
- form of government in which power is held by the central government
- unitary government
- form of government in which power is shared by a national government and state or regional governments
- federal government
- principle of government in which the power of government is shared between the national and state or regional governments
- federalism
- alliance of separate and independent states
- confederate government
- forms of democracy in which the majority vote of all citizens makes the laws governing them
- direct democracy
- all practices by which the people of a country carry out their political activities and achieve their goals of government
- politicak system
- form of governmnent in which political power is held by the people.
- democracy
- form of democracy in which elected representatives run the business of government
- representative democracy
- form of representative democracy in which the lawmaking and law enacting branches of government overlap.
- parliamentary democracy
- form of representiaive democracy in which the lawmaking and law enacting branches of government are seperate.
- presidential democracy
- form of government headed by a single leader who generally has inherited his title
- monarchy
- form of government in which absolute power is held by one individual or a small group
- dictatorship
- belief that government should control all groups and individual behavior to promote the good of the state
- totalitarianism
- political philosophy that exalts nation and race above the individual
- facism
- totalitarian system of government in which the state controls in large measure the economic and social life of the society
- communism
- all the ways in which people's material needs are met, through production, distrubytion, exchange of goods and services.
- economic system
- economic system in which the means of production, distribution and exchange of goods and services are privately owned
- capitalism
- policy based on a minimum of government interference in business
- laissez faire
- economic system in which government owns or controls some of the means of production and determines the distribution of some of the output
- socialism