Chapter 1- Political Dictionary Show Prepared by a Student
Significance- Government is made up of those people who exercise its powers, those who have authority and control over people.
Significance-Public policies cover matters ranging from taxation, defense, education, crime and health care to transportation, the environment and working conditions.
Significance- Legislative power makes the laws which citizens abide by.
Significance- One of the key kinds of power that the government has and exercises.
Significance- The judicial powers along with the executive and the legislative powers are often outlined in the constitution.
Significance- The constitution is essential for our democratic government.
Significance- Those who rule cannot be responsible to the will of the people.
Significance-The United States is a Democracy.
Significance- There are more than 190 states in the world today.
Significance- The United States can determine its form of government because it�s a sovereign state.
Significance- Autocracy is a form of authoritarian government.
Significance- Oligarchy is also another form of authoritarian government in which those in power hold absolute and unchallengeable authority over the people.
Significance- All powers held by the government belong to a single, central agency.
Significance- The United States has a important federal government.
Significance- Both levels of government act directly on the people through their own sets of laws, officials, and agencies.
Significance- A central organization, the confederate government, only handles those matters that member states assign to it.
Significance- The chief executive is chosen independently of the legislature, holds office for a fixed tern, and has broad powers not subject to the direct control of the legislative branch.
Significance- Compromise is a process of blending and adjusting competing views and interests.
Significance- Free enterprise system is based on four fundamental factors: private ownership, individual initiative, profit and competition.
Significance- The law of supply and demand keeps the economy stable.
Significance- Government�s participation in the economy serves a twofold purpose: to protect the public and to preserve private enterprise. What government is where all power is held by a single person or small group?A dictatorship where power resides in the hands of one single person or polity. That person may be, for example, an absolute monarch or a dictator, but can also be an elected president.
What type of government is ruled by a single person?Monarchy. Monarchy is a power system that appoints a person as head of state for life or until abdication.
What is it called when power is held by one person?dictatorship, form of government in which one person or a small group possesses absolute power without effective constitutional limitations.
What is a government in which the power to rule is held by a small usually self appointed elite group?An oligarchy is a government in which the power to rule is held by a small, usually self-appointed elite.
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