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

noun
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:
Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.

Question 4

Direct Democracy

Answer 4

In direct democracy, the people decide on policies without any intermediary

Question 5

Represenative

Answer 5

a person chosen or appointed to act or speak for another or others.

Question 6

Represenative Democracy

Answer 6

A representative democracy is a political system in which citizens of a country or other political entity vote for

Question 7

Monarchy

Answer 7

a state or nation in which the supreme power is actually or nominally lodged in a monarch

Question 8

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 (opposed to minority)

Question 10

Minority

Answer 10

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

Communisim

Answer 12

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.

Question 13

Socialism

Answer 13

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

Totalitarianism

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Head Of Government

Answer 15

The head of government is the highest or the second-highest official in the executive branch of a sovereign state

Question 16

Citizen Participation

Answer 16

including the right to participate in decisions that affect public welfare.

Question 17

Voting

Answer 17

give or register a vote.

Question 18

Legislature

Answer 18

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.

Question 19

Anarchy

Answer 19

a state of society without government or law.

Question 20

Tyranny

Answer 20

arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority