Civics Unit 1 Vocabulary Review

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Across
  1. 1. practice of having a single legislative or parliamentary chamber
  2. 4. the full right and power of a governing body over itself, without any interference from outside sources
  3. 5. Services: Services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizen
  4. 12. elite theory: Business leaders, key politicians, and top Military Officers.
  5. 14. right theory: kings derived their authority from God and could not therefore be held accountable for their actions by any earthly authority such as a parliament.
  6. 15. Carta: Gave certain rights
  7. 17. Democracy: no representatives
  8. 18. theory: Government began with conquest
  9. 19. theory: government grew out of family authority
  10. 23. a sovereign state whose citizens are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent.
  11. 26. rights: rights people are born with
  12. 27. colonies: Least freedom. Like King's private property
  13. 29. a form of government in which power is held by the nobility.
  14. 30. Bill of Rights: outlined specific constitutional and civil rights and ultimately gave Parliament power over the monarchy
  15. 32. gov. that recognizes God or divine being as the ultimate authority.
  16. 33. Democracy: People elect the government in order to make decisions for them.
  17. 35. Small group of people has all the power
  18. 36. government: Power is shared between central and local governments
  19. 38. centralism: A dictatorship or oligarchy disguised as a democracy.
  20. 40. colonies: Colonies operated under a corporate charter given by the crown
  21. 41. Franklin: Assisted Thomas Jefferson and John Adams with drafting the Declaration of Independence, on 100 dollar bill
Down
  1. 2. theory: elites are corporate leaders and they control power and money
  2. 3. colonies: grants of land in the form of a charter, or a license to rule, for individuals or groups
  3. 6. theory: People behind the scenes
  4. 7. of Independence: The document that declared independence from British rule
  5. 8. one leader has absolute control over citizens lives
  6. 9. activities concerned with achieving and using power in a country or society
  7. 10. system: Most common form in the world today, executive and legislative branches are joined
  8. 11. Unitary individual states joined together under a United government.
  9. 12. minister: the principal minister of a sovereign or state.
  10. 13. A form of government in which the legislature is split into two houses
  11. 14. citizens hold political power
  12. 16. theory: lots of people have power
  13. 20. contract theory:
  14. 21. Order: Under certain circumstances involving a criminal threat to public safety, the interests of society should take precedence over individual right
  15. 22. Jefferson: Helped draft the Declaration of Independence.
  16. 24. Monarchy: Rulers have total authority of government
  17. 25. the action of protecting, or the state of being protected
  18. 28. Locke: Enlightenment writer, was a key influence
  19. 31. George III: British King that the colonies delcared independence from
  20. 34. system: The government the US uses. Executive and legislative branches are separate
  21. 37. government: central supreme government which holds the authority over and makes the decisions for subordinate local governments.
  22. 39. government with one person with absolute power.