Government Unit 1 Vocab
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- NATION
- group of people united by bonds of race, language, custom, tradition, and sometimes, religion
- REPUBLIC
- a government in which woters hold sovereign power; elected representatives, responsible to the people, exercise that power
- BUREAUCRACY
- government administrators
- POLITICS
- the effort to control or influence the conduct and policies of government
- DEMOCRACY
- government in which the people rule
- ANARCHY
- political disorder
- OLIGARCHY
- a system of government in which a small group holds power
- SOVEREIGNTY
- the supreme and absolute authority within territorial boundaries
- AUTOCRACY
- a system of government in which the power to rule is in the hands of a single individual
- STATE
- a political community that occupies a definite territory and has an organized government with the power to make and enforce laws without approval from any higher authority