Chapter 3 Terms

Question 1

A form of government in which the people directly affect a government’s policies and actions

Answer 1

Direct democracy (pure democracy)

Question 2

System of government in which the state has complete control over all aspects of its citizens’ lives

Answer 2

Totalitarianism

Question 3

An authoritative form of government in which the ruler or rulers have unshared power over the making and enforcing of laws.

Answer 3

Dictatorship

Question 4

A system in which the people elect legislative representatives from different parties; the winning party’s leader becomes the head of the executive branch, the Prime Minister, and establishes a cabinet

Answer 4

Parliamentary System

Question 5

Higher house in Congress; representation is equal for each state with each state having two senators.

Answer 5

Senate

Question 6

A legislature made up of only one house

Answer 6

Unicameral

Question 7

System in which governmental power is divided into two or more levels, usually a central government and component local governments

Answer 7

Federalism

Question 8

The chief executive officer and head of the executive branch in the U.S. system of government

Answer 8

President

Question 9

A political subdivision of a county

Answer 9

Township

Question 10

Form of government in which citizens participate in the making and enforcement of laws and policies

Answer 10

Popular Government

Question 11

A government ruled by one person who holds supreme power

Answer 11

Autocracy

Question 12

The lower house in Congress; representation is based on state population.

Answer 12

House of Representatives

Question 13

Powers given to the national government by the Constitution that define the limits of its authority

Answer 13

Delegated Powers

Question 14

State in which the supreme power rests in the people and their elected representatives or officers

Answer 14

Republic

Question 16

At the federal level, the legislative branch of American government; a bicameral legislature composed of a lower house called the House of Representatives and a higher house called the Senate

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Congress

Question 18

Districts, independent of the city and county, especially established to provide government functions on the local level

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Special districts

Question 19

Governmental power that resides in the central government, but unlike a dictatorship, it receives all of its power from the people

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Unitary System

Question 20

A form of government in which the people elect representatives to operate the government on their behalf

Answer 20

Indirect Democracy (representative democracy)

Question 20

System in which regional governments retain supremacy while delegating limited power to the national government

Answer 20

Confederate Government

Question 21

The absence of government or law

Answer 21

Anarchy

Question 22

A system in which the people directly elect the head of the executive branch independently of the legislative branch; the two branches are separate and equal

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Presidential system

Question 24

Process by which a state establishes a city as a legal government body by giving it a charter establishing the parameters in which it can operate

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Incorporation

Question 25

A document that establishes a city’s name and serves as its constitution.

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Charter

Question 26

Any system of public rule or authority

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Government

Question 27

A form of dictatorship government ruled by an elite group with supreme power

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Oligarchy

Question 27

The highest court in the land

Answer 27

Supreme Court

Question 27

A legislative branch divided into two separate houses.

Answer 27

Bicameral