Chapter 1 Review

Econ system where business is free to engage in econ activity with a min of gov interference

Political unit with the power to enforce laws over a group living within a defined territory

Divides power between a national government and smaller regional governments

Rule by a few, an aristocracy

In this system the executive and legislative branches are combined

Citizens meet regularly to discuss issues and vote for leaders

Formal institutions and processes through which decisions are made for a group of people.

Sovereignty rests in a single, national government with ultimate authority

First governments formed in result of people agreeing to submit to the authority of the state.

Rule in which one person or a small group of people can hold unlimited power over government

Basic principle of democracy that decisions are made getting more than half of the votes cast.

Supreme power to act within its territory and control its external affairs

Rulers are seen as right and proper by important segments of a nation’s population.

Government headed by one person, such as a king or queen, who exercises supreme authority

Independent states join forces in a central government

This made the king answerable only to God

System that has a head of state that leads the executive branch separate from other branches

Any decision made by government in a pursuit of a particular goal

The people elect representatives to make decisions on their behalf

The belief that ordinary people could aspire to rule themselves and do so as political equals