Forms & Systems of Government

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  1. 4. government actors must follow certain procedures before they may deprive a person of a protected life, liberty, or property interest.
  2. 5. a form of democracy in which people vote for representatives who then vote on policy initiatives
  3. 7. form of government in which one person or a small group possesses absolute power without effective constitutional limitations
  4. 13. 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)
  5. 14. political system based upon the undivided sovereignty or rule of a single person
  6. 15. relating to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state
  7. 18. system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
Down
  1. 1. 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
  2. 2. a form of monarchy in which the monarch rules in his or her own right or power
  3. 3. an elected official serving as both chief of state and chief political executive in a republic
  4. 6. state where the chief executive and representatives are elected, and the rules are set down in a written constitution.
  5. 8. favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom.
  6. 9. 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)
  7. 10. a system of government in which the same territory is controlled by two levels of government.
  8. 11. 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
  9. 12. system smaller governments within a larger political unit have the major power, and the central government has very limited powers
  10. 16. a society without rulers
  11. 17. dominant power or supreme authority
  12. 19. government by the few, especially despotic power exercised by a small and privileged group for corrupt or selfish purposes