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| Power and authority reside in a single individual, such as a dictatorship. |
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| A small group holds power in the government, such as a communist country. |
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| The people hold the sovereign power o the nation. |
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| People govern themselves by voting on issues idividually as citizens. |
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| Representative Democracy is? |
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| People elect representatives and give them the power and responsibility to make laws. |
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| Democracies are strengthened by? |
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| Stable growing economies with a large middle class. |
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| An economic system providing free choice and individual encentive for workers, investors, consumers, and business enterprises. |
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| An economic system in which buyers an sellers make free choices in the marketplace. |
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| An economic system in which the governmentowns the basic means of production, distributes products and wages, and provides social services such as health care and welfare. |
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| An economic system in which the government controls the factors of production. |
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| Democrats and Republicans |
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| Totalitarian dictatorship is a form of the type of government. |
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| The U.S. has this form of government. |
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| In which form of government do individuals have the most freedom. |
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| Adam Smith provided a philosophy for this type of economic system. |
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| In this type of economy, the goernment owns the basic means of production. |
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| Critics claim that this type of economic system hinders economic growth. |
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| The U.S. has this type of economic system |
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| Karl Marx believed that under this economic system one class would evolve |
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| ____ was one of the first students of government. |
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| ____ - a political community that occupies a defineite territory and has an organized government with the power to make and enfrce laws withouth approval from any higher authority. |
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| ____ - is any sizable group of people who are united by common bonds of race, language, custom, tradition, and sometimes religion. |
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| ____ - The state evolved from the family group |
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| ____ - One person or a group used force to establish its authority to gobern the people |
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| ____ - The rulers of the people were chosen by gods to govern |
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| ____ - The people gave the government its power to rule them, and in return the gobernment had to respect the people's rights |
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| ____ ____ wrote that people were naturally endowed with the right to life, liberty, and property. |
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| Governments are needed to maintain _____ _____ by making and _______ ____. |
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| Social Order, Enforcing Laws |
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| This term means a state has supreme and absolute authority within its territorial boundaries. |
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| American colonies declared their independence based on |
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| John Locke's political writings |
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| A government that divides the powers of government between the national gobernment and state or provincial governments |
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| Define Constitutional Government |
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| A government in which a constitution has authority to place clearly recognized limits on the power of those who govern |
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| A statement in the onstitution that sets forth the goals and purposes of government |
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| The effort to control or influence the conduct and policies of government |
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