Across
- 1. practice of having a single legislative or parliamentary chamber
- 4. the full right and power of a governing body over itself, without any interference from outside sources
- 5. Services: Services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizen
- 12. elite theory: Business leaders, key politicians, and top Military Officers.
- 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.
- 15. Carta: Gave certain rights
- 17. Democracy: no representatives
- 18. theory: Government began with conquest
- 19. theory: government grew out of family authority
- 23. a sovereign state whose citizens are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent.
- 26. rights: rights people are born with
- 27. colonies: Least freedom. Like King's private property
- 29. a form of government in which power is held by the nobility.
- 30. Bill of Rights: outlined specific constitutional and civil rights and ultimately gave Parliament power over the monarchy
- 32. gov. that recognizes God or divine being as the ultimate authority.
- 33. Democracy: People elect the government in order to make decisions for them.
- 35. Small group of people has all the power
- 36. government: Power is shared between central and local governments
- 38. centralism: A dictatorship or oligarchy disguised as a democracy.
- 40. colonies: Colonies operated under a corporate charter given by the crown
- 41. Franklin: Assisted Thomas Jefferson and John Adams with drafting the Declaration of Independence, on 100 dollar bill
Down
- 2. theory: elites are corporate leaders and they control power and money
- 3. colonies: grants of land in the form of a charter, or a license to rule, for individuals or groups
- 6. theory: People behind the scenes
- 7. of Independence: The document that declared independence from British rule
- 8. one leader has absolute control over citizens lives
- 9. activities concerned with achieving and using power in a country or society
- 10. system: Most common form in the world today, executive and legislative branches are joined
- 11. Unitary individual states joined together under a United government.
- 12. minister: the principal minister of a sovereign or state.
- 13. A form of government in which the legislature is split into two houses
- 14. citizens hold political power
- 16. theory: lots of people have power
- 20. contract theory:
- 21. Order: Under certain circumstances involving a criminal threat to public safety, the interests of society should take precedence over individual right
- 22. Jefferson: Helped draft the Declaration of Independence.
- 24. Monarchy: Rulers have total authority of government
- 25. the action of protecting, or the state of being protected
- 28. Locke: Enlightenment writer, was a key influence
- 31. George III: British King that the colonies delcared independence from
- 34. system: The government the US uses. Executive and legislative branches are separate
- 37. government: central supreme government which holds the authority over and makes the decisions for subordinate local governments.
- 39. government with one person with absolute power.