Forms & Systems of Government

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Across
  1. 3. a form of democracy in which people vote for representatives who then vote on policy initiatives
  2. 5. a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs
  3. 6. an elected official serving as both chief of state and chief political executive in a republic
  4. 7. a society without rulers
  5. 8. government actors must follow certain procedures before they may deprive a person of a protected life, liberty, or property interest.
  6. 10. state where the chief executive and representatives are elected, and the rules are set down in a written constitution.
  7. 14. a form of monarchy in which the monarch rules in his or her own right or power
  8. 16. a sovereign state governed as a single entity in which the central government is the supreme authority. The central government may create or abolish administrative divisions (sub-national units)
  9. 17. a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch
  10. 18. form of government in which one person or a small group possesses absolute power without effective constitutional limitations
Down
  1. 1. dominant power or supreme authority
  2. 2. favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom.
  3. 4. system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
  4. 5. system smaller governments within a larger political unit have the major power, and the central government has very limited powers
  5. 9. relating to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state
  6. 11. government by the few, especially despotic power exercised by a small and privileged group for corrupt or selfish purposes
  7. 12. political system based upon the undivided sovereignty or rule of a single person
  8. 13. a political ideology that aims to give workers shared ownership of the tools, land, and buildings that they use to make products or provide services (called the means of production)
  9. 15. a system of government in which the same territory is controlled by two levels of government.