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

Direct democracy or pure democracy is 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

The United States is a representative democracy. This means that our government is elected by citizens.

Question 7

Monarchy

Answer 7

a form of government with a monarch at the head.

Question 8

Oligarchy

Answer 8

a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution.

Question 9

Majority

Answer 9

the greater part or number; the number larger than half the total ( minority ):
the majority of the population.

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 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

the character or quality of an autocratic or authoritarian individual, group, or government:
the totalitarianism of the father.the character or quality of an autocratic or authoritarian individual, group, or government:
the totalitarianism of the father.

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 Participation is the active involvement of citizens in the legislative decision-making process allowing them to contribute to decisions that may have an impact on their lives.

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.

Question 21

Veto

Answer 21

the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.

Question 22

Declare

Answer 22

to make known or state clearly, especially in explicit or formal terms

Question 23

Constitution

Answer 23

the system of fundamental principles according to which a nation, state, corporation, or the like, is governed.

Question 24

Figurehead

Answer 24

a person who is head heads of a group, company, etc., in title but actually has no real authority or responsibility: