American Government Final 3 Flashcards
not biased or partisan, esp. toward any particular political group.
Authority
The legal right and power to give orders and enforce rules.
Sovereignty
A system of government in which citizens exercise supreme power, acting either directly on their own or through elected officia
democracy
A form of government in which the citizens vote in order to pass laws.
Direct Democracy
a nation in which supreme power rests with the citizens and is exercised by their elected representatives.
republic
A system of government in which a single person or group exercise supreme power by controlling the military and police.
dicatiorship
an economic system that relies mainly on markets to determine what goods and services to produce and how to produce them.
Market Economy
an economic system combining private and public enterprise.
Mixed Economy
big businesses control the government, but the government still has some
regulations, there is a smaller gap in classes
Socialism
blends both command and market economy, it’s the most common type of
economy used in countries (ex: USA)
Mixed Economy
a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
communism
In political philosophy the social contract or political contract is a theory or model, originating during the Age of Enlightenment, that typically addresses the questions of the origin of society and the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual. …
Social Contract Theory
The divine right of kings, or divine-right theory of kingship, is a political and religious doctrine of royal and political legitimacy. It asserts that a monarch is subject to no earthly authority, deriving the right to rule directly from the will of God
Divine Right theory
Address:
Majority Rules
Individual Freedoms
Necessity of Compromise
The decision is made upon which people voted most for one ballot.
Belief in the primary importance of the individual and in the virtues of self-reliance and personal independence.
Necessity of compromise means to avoid something for the improvement of whole society. Nuclear program of North Korea is a good example of necessity of compromise .they let down their atomic program for perfection of society.
Compare:
Confederate
Unitary
and Federal Systems
Confederate: joined by an agreement or treaty.
Unitary: forming a single or uniform entity.
Federal Systems: a political concept in which a group of members are bound together by covenant with a governing representative head
