Unit 1 Vocabulary

the institution through which a society makes and enforces it's public policies

• government

• democracy

• state

• constitution

the body of fundamental laws setting out the principles, structures, and process of a government

• constitution

• autocracy

• charter

• oligarchy

one person or a small group possesses absolute power without effective constitutional limitations

• love

• popular sovereignty

• dictatorship

• oligarchy

a way of governing which depends on the will of the people.

• legislature

• state

• charter

• democracy

political organization of society, or the body politic, or, more narrowly, the institutions of government.

• branch

• charter

• state

• solid

a document granting certain specified rights, powers, privileges, or functions from the sovereign power of a state to an individual, corporation, city, or other unit of local organization.

• state

• charter

• branch

• legislature

dominant power or supreme authority.

• autocracy

• sovereignty

• oligarchy

• bicameral

a system of government by one person with absolute power.

• autocracy

• liquid

• bicameral

• democracy

government by the few, especially despotic power exercised by a small and privileged group for corrupt or selfish purposes.

• ratification

• tiarchy

• monarchy

• oligarchy

a doctrine in political theory that government is created by and subject to the will of the people.

• popular government

• popular aggression

• popular sovereignty

• representative government