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

pure democracy is a form of democracy in which the electorate decides on policy initiatives without elected representatives as proxies. This differs from the majority of currently established democracies, which are representative democracies.

Question 5

Representative

Answer 5

a person or thing that represents another or others.

Question 6

Representative Democracy

Answer 6

The United States is a representative democracy. This means that our government is elected by citizens. Here, citizens vote for their government officials. These officials represent the citizens’ ideas and concerns in government. Voting is one way to participate in our democracy.

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

Communism

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

Question 14

Totalitarianism

Answer 14

the practices and principles of a totalitarian regime.

Question 15

Head of Government

Answer 15

The President is both the head of state and head of government of the United States of America, and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces.

Question 16

Citizen Participation

Answer 16

citizen involvement in public decision making

Question 17

Voting

Answer 17

Voting is a method by which a group, such as a meeting or an electorate, convenes together for the purpose of making a collective decision or expressing an opinion usually following discussions, debates or election campaigns.

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.