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 democracy in which the electorate decides on policy initiatives without elected representatives as proxies.

Question 5

Representative

Answer 5

a person or thing that represents another or others.

Question 6

Representative Democracy

Answer 6

government is elected by citizens

Question 7

Monarchy

Answer 7

supreme power or sovereignty held by a single person.

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

a number of voters or votes, jurors, or others in agreement, constituting more than half of the total number.

Question 10

Minority

Answer 10

a smaller party or group opposed to a majority, as in voting or other action.

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

(often initial capital letter) 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

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 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

By voting, citizens are participating in the democratic process.

Question 17

Voting

Answer 17

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

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

the government or rule of a tyrant or absolute ruler.