Forms of Government Flashcards

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Civics

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the study or science of the privileges and obligations of citizens.

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Community

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

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Government

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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:

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Direct Democracy

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to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.:

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Representative

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a person or thing that represents another or others.

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Representative Democracy

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a person or thing that represents another or others.

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Monarchy

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a state or nation in which the supreme power is actually or nominally lodged in a monarch.: Compare absolute monarchy, limited monarchy.

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Oligarchy

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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.

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Majority

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the greater part or number; the number larger than half the total (opposed to minority):

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Minority

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

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Autocracy

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

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Communism

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a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.

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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.

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Totalitarianism

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the practices and principles of a totalitarian regime.

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Head of Government

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the highest or the second-highest official in the executive branch of a sovereign state

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Citizen Participation

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local authorities playing a more supportive role, for instance by providing facilities

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Voting

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a formal expression of opinion or choice made by an individual or body of individuals, especially in an election.

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Legislature

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a deliberative body of persons, usually elective, who are empowered to make, change, or repeal the laws of a country or state; the branch of government having the power to make laws, as distinguished from the executive and judicial branches of government.

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Anarchy

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a state of society without government or law.

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Tyranny

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arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority.