Forms of Government

Question 1

Civics

Answer 1

the study or science of the privileges and obligations of citizens

Question 2

Community

Answer 2

a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage

Question 3

Government

Answer 3

the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration

Question 4

Direct Democracy

Answer 4

a form of government in which policies and laws are decided by a majority of all those eligible rather than by a body of elected representatives

Question 5

Representative

Answer 5

a person or thing that represents another or others

Question 6

Representative Democracy

Answer 6

Representative democracy is the political system in which citizens of a country or other political entity vote for representatives to handle legislation and otherwise rule that entity on their behalf

Question 7

Monarchy

Answer 7

supreme power or sovereignty held by a single person or persons

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Oligarchy

Answer 8

a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few

Question 9

Majority

Answer 9

the greater part or number; the number larger than half the total

Question 10

Minority

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the smaller part or number; a number, part, or amount forming less than half of the whole

Question 11

Autocracy

Answer 11

government in which one person has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others; the government or power of an absolute monarch

Question 12

Communism

Answer 12

a system of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single and self-perpetuating political party

Question 13

Socialism

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a theory or system of social organization that advocates the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, capital, land, etc., by the community as a whole, usually through a centralized government

Question 14

Totalitarainism

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absolute control by the state or a governing branch of a highly centralized institution

Question 15

Head of Government

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Person responsible for carrying on the business of government and for leading the team of ministers who control the central institutions of the government and the state

Question 16

Citizen Participation

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Citizen participation refers to citizen involvement in public decision making

Question 17

Voting

Answer 17

give or register a vote

Question 18

Legislature

Answer 18

the legislative body of a country or state

Question 19

Anarchy

Answer 19

the organization of society on the basis of voluntary cooperation, without political institutions or hierarchical government; anarchism

Question 20

Tyranny

Answer 20

cruel and oppressive government or rule