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| Where both state and nation coincide for a classification. |
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| An agreement between the people |
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| A group who are untied by bonds of race, language, custom, tradition, and sometimes religion. |
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| The supreme and absolute authority within territorial boundaries. |
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| The institution that through which states maintain social order, provide public services, and enforce binding decisions on citizens. |
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| A theory that by contract, people give to the state the power needed to maintain social order, provide public services, and enforce binding decisions on citizens. |
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| A government that gives all key powers to the national or central government. |
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| A government that divides the powers of government between the national government and state or provincial governments. |
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| A loose union of independent states. |
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| A document that states the powers and limitations of the government. |
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| constitutional government |
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| A government in which a constitution has authority to place clearly recognized limits on the powers of those who govern. |
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| A statement in a constitution that sets forth the goals and purposes of government. |
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| Law that involves the interpretation and application of the U.S constitution and state constitutions. |
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| The effort to control or influence the conduct and policies of government. |
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| A nation with large industries and advances in technology that provides a more comfortable way of life thank developing nations. |
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| A nation only beginning to develop industrially |
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| A system of government in which the power to rule is in the hands of a single individual. |
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| Autocracy in which a king, queen, or emperor exercises supreme powers of government. |
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| A system of government in which a small group holds power. |
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| A government in which the people rule. |
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| A government in which voters hold sovereign power; elected representatives, responsible to the people, exercise that power. |
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| A group of individuals with broad common interests who organize to nominate candidates for office, win elections, conduct government, and determine public policy. |
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| The opportunity to control one's own economic decisions. |
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| The study of human efforts to satisfy seemingly unlimited wants through the use of limited resources. |
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| An economic system providing free choice and individual incentive for workers, investors, consumers, and business enterprises. |
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| Economic system in which buyers and sellers make free choices in the market place. |
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| The philosophy that government should keep it's hands off the economy. |
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| An economic system in which the government owns the basic means of production, distributes the products and wages, and provides social services such as health care for the workers. |
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| Capitalists who own then means production. |
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| Workers who produce the goods. |
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| An economic system in which the central government directs all major economic decisions. |
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| An economic system in which the government controls the factors of production. |
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| A political community, that occupies a territory and has an organized government, that has power to make and enforce laws without permission from higher authority. |
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