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Section 1

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Social Contract

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humans agreed to make a state to promote safety and well being of themselves

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Oligarchy

Front

A government ruled by a few powerful people

Back

Democracy

Front

A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

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Confederation

Front

an alliance of independent states

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Executive Branch

Front

Enforces laws

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Parliamentary Democracy

Front

executive branch is made up of the prime minister of premier and the officials cabinet

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Republic Democracy

Front

a government where people hold the power of government and choose leaders to make laws and represent them

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free enterprise system

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Private ownership of capital goods

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majority rule, minority rights

Front

the democratic principle that a government follows the preferences of the majority of voters but protects the interests of the minority

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Government

Front

The institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies

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Judicial Branch

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Interprets the laws

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Sovereignty

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Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states.

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Federal Government

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A form of government in which powers are divided between a central government and several local governments.

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Autocracy

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a system of government by one person with absolute power.

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public policy

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the principles, often unwritten, on which social laws are based.

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Economics

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The study of how people seek to satisfy their needs and wants by making choices

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Foundations of Democracy

Front

worth of the individual, equality of all persons, majority rule minority rights, necessity of compromise, individual freedom

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Citizen

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holds both rights and responsibility in a state

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Evolutionary Theory

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state developed out of the family system

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State

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Populations, territory, sovereignty, government

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Dictatorship

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those who rule cannot be held responsible to the will of the people

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Indirect Democracy

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a system of government that gives citizens the opportunity to vote for representatives who work on their behalf

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compromise

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blending and adjusting competing views and interests

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Unitary Government

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A centralized government in which all government powers belong to a single, central agency.

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Direct Democracy

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A form of government in which citizens rule directly and not through representatives

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Devine Right Theory

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God created the state and royal birth line.

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Duties of citizens

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respect core beliefs of democracy, obey the law, pay taxes, vote, and participate

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Presidential Government

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features a separation of powers between the executive and the legislative branches of the government

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Force Theory

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Theory that people were forced to submit to an individual's rule

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Constitution

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principles by which its government operates

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Lesislative Branch

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make laws

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