Government & Civics Vocabulary

a system of government where citizen,s instead of representatives, decide the laws and policies that govern them and are chosen by majority.

• Majority

• Minority

• Representative Democracy

• Direct Democracy

a number of votes that is more than half of the total number

• Majority
• Minority
• Monarchy
• Oligarchy

a number of votes that is less than half of the total number

• Majority
• Minority
• Monarchy
• Oligarchy

a system of government where citizens elect representatives to decide laws and policies that govern them

• Direct Democarcy
• Representative Democracy
• Anarchy
• Theocracy

A System of Government whose laws are decided upon by the whole of the population or citizens, typically through elected representatives.

• Monarchy
• Dictatorship
• Oligarchy
• Democracy

a system of government that has a royal family (king or queen) at the head where rule is handed down according to birthright.

• Democracy
• Dictatorship
• Oligarchy
• Monarchy

a system of government where a single person has absolute power over its citizens usually by military force

• Anarchy
• Democracy
• Dictatorship
• Theocracy

a system of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class

• Dictatorship
• Democracy
• Anarchy
• Oligarchy

a system of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler

• Monarchy
• Oligarchy
• Anarchy
• Theocracy

the absence of government and lawlessness but often thought of as absolute freedom of the individual

• Anarchy
• Theocracy
• Oligarchy
• Dictatorship