Sheltered Government Unit 1 Review

This is a type of government where a king or queen rules.

The governments power is divided between a national government and several state or local governments.

The power of the government is divided into different branches.

An alliance or group of independent states working together.

This theory says that people agree to unite into a community for their common good.

Which of the following is NOT a branch of the US government?

A government where citizens hold the political power.

What does the judicial brach do?

This word means that government is not all powerful.

This is a government where a small group of people has all the power.

This was the first "constitution" of the United States.

This means a state has total power within its boundaries or to absolutely rule within a territory.

This is a form of government where citizens have the power to rule.

This is a government that recognizes a god or divine being as the ultimate authority.

The land that belongs to a state or an area in which a state's rules apply.

Citizens elect leaders to make decisions for them in government.

A system of people that rule a country and maintain order.

This theory says that over time the head of the family changed into the head of the state.

When was the Declaration of Independence signed?

What does the Executive branch do?

This theory says that a god created the state and chose the rulers.

This man wrote the Declaration of Independence.

A government where one person has all of the power.

A group of people living in an area, with the power to make and enforce laws and a government to do this.

What does the legislative branch do?

A form of government where one leader has absolute control over citizens' lives.

This theory says that someone bigger and stronger came and made everyone else follow his or her rule.

The number of people in a state.

A system of government where all of the power is located in one single place or in one single, central agency.

In this type of democracy there are no representatives, citizens are involved in the daily work of running the country

There is no one in control.