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 form or system of rule by which a state, community, etc., is governed:

Question 4

Direct Democracy

Answer 4

The people who decide on policies without any intermediary or representative

Question 5

Representative

Answer 5

A person or thing that represents another or others.

Question 6

Representative Democracy

Answer 6

Representative democracy is a form of democracy in which people vote for representatives who then vote on policy initiatives;

Question 7

Monarchy

Answer 7

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

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

Procedure or practice in accordance with this theory.

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

Citizen involvement in public decision making.

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

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