Across
- 3. system of government having the real executive power vested in
- 4. membership in the ruling group may be based on wealth, family, or military power
- 5. claims to be officially neutral regarding religion.
- 6. government tightly controls all aspects of life political, social, and economic
- 8. government by the people; citizens are the ultimate source of government authority
- 11. monarchy based on the idea that their are limits to the rightful power of a government over its citizens
- 12. rulers claim to represent and be directed by a set of religious ideas
Down
- 1. single dictator or a small group holds absolute authority and makes all decisions
- 2. usually a king or queen
- 4. government in which one person possesses unlimited power.
- 7. small group of powerful people make most government decisions for their own benefit
- 9. which may be a legal instrument or merely a set of fixed norms or principles generally accepted as the fundamental law of the polity
- 10. citizens do not govern the state themselves but through representatives