Part 1 Flashcards
Territory
Defined land with borders;
Population
Population, people living in the country, the majority have to be citizens;
Regime
A type of how to run a country as a government (Democracy, Dictatorship, Monarchy, etc…);
Souveranity
The Regime/government is the only that is rulling;
Dictatorship
A person/body in complete controll of the country;
Democracy
The country is runned by the population
Monarchy
A political system based upon the individual souveranity (monarchy is a type of dictatorship, son of the king gets the new ruler)
What’s a monarch?
Mostly a king or a queen
Law
Rules everyone has to follow
Constitution
A document, on which the whole country/state is based on
Ethnical group
People cant decide it, they are born into it, they share culture, language, heritage (sometimes religion too)
2 types of democracy
Straight democracy and representative democracy
Representative democracy
citizens vote for their government officials. These officials represent the citizens’ ideas and concerns in government
Straight democracy
people decide on policies without any intermediary or representative (like you vote either for Donald Trump or Biden)
Nationality
The status of belonging to a particular nation