Chapter 1 Flashcards
Legitimately
Governments rightful authority over its citizens
Natural Rights
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
Sovereignty
Absolute authority that a government has over citizens
Authoritarian
Term used to describe rulers who answer only to themselves
Representative democracy
Form of government in which the people elect representatives to conduct the business of government for them
Dictatorship
Form of government in which power is concentrated in the hands of a single person or small group of people
Parliamentary system
System in which the legislature selects the chief executive
Federal system
System in which power are divided among local state and national governments
Oligarchy
Rule by few
Unitary system
System in which all legal power is held by the national government
Autocracy
Rule by one
State
Political unit
Law
Set of rules made and enforce by government ; this is binding on society
Social contract
In exchange for order and peace individual sovereignty giving up to the state
Republic
Country in which government authority comes solely from the people
