4. List Of Government Terms Flashcards
Autocracy
One person has complete control over all branches of government
Bureaucracy
A system of leaders who carry out works of the government through the use of departments
Dictator
A leader who has total control over a country, and is unrestrained by law
Foreign exchange student
Pupils who go to another country to study it’s culture for a set amount of time, usually a year.
Habeas corpus
An order to bring an arrested person to court and decide whether the imprisonment is legal
Insubordination
The act of disobedience
Legislation
A proposed law
Loathe
To hate or abhor
Unrelenting
Inflexible; refusing to yield
Welfare state
A country in which the government assumes a large share of the social caretaking of the people
Workfare
A system where a person will receive welfare benefits after showing proof of working In a regular job
Saddam Hussein
Dictator of Iraq, tolerated no opposition within his country, regime tortured Iraqi people
Saddam Hussein managed to keep control of Iraq despite?
Humiliation by the U.S. In continual conflicts since attacks of Persian Gulf in 1990s
President George W. Bush did what in March 2003?
Ordered military invasion of Iraq with goal of toppling Hussein from power.
War in Iraq began on?
March 19, 2003.
Goal of removing Hussein from power was accomplished on?
December 13, 2003
General Idi Amin
Dictator of Uganda, similar to Hussein, came to power in 1971
Dictator ______ declared Uganda to be a _____ country
General Idi Amin, Muslim
In _____, Amin expelled _____ from Uganda
1972, Asians
Uganda was at war with?
Neighboring Tanzania
Ugandan rebels in war with Tanzania?
Allied with Tanzanian troops and drove Amin from country
Amin escaped to?
Saudi Arabia, where he died in August of 2003
Canadian province of Quebec?
Had a bureaucracy which desired to gain independence
Province of ____ is working to gain independence from ____
Quebec, Canada
Example of a bureaucracy at work?
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
The C.I.A’s mission Is?
To support President, the National Security Council, and all who make and execute US national security policy
What is the Central Intelligence Agency?
An independent agency whose director is appointed by the president
The CIA supports government by?
Providing support related to foreign intelligence and national security as directed by the president.
Many people feel that the US is becoming a?
Welfare state
A ____ may rule a country with an iron fist and be totally unrestrained by any law of the land
Dictator
Louis XVI was a real-life example of a
Autocrat
Habeas corpus full term
Writ of habeas corpus
Habeas corpus is seen to many countries where freedoms are limited as?
One of the pillars which make our country’s freedoms outstanding
Louis XVI
Autocrat that ruled France, held power over clergy, nobility, and common people.
Milton Friedman
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
If habeas corpus didn’t exist
A person could spend an indefinite period of time in jail waiting for their case to go to trial
One person has control over all branches of government?
Autocracy
If George Washington became “Kind of America” our government might have become
An autocracy
