Across
- 4. The central government gets its authority from the independent states
- 5. rule by people
- 6. a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution
- 7. no individual freedom and seeks to subordinate all aspects of individual life to the authority of the state
- 8. supreme political power to direct all the activities of the state is concentrated in the hands of one person, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control
- 9. a military hierarchy in which a ruler or lord offers mounted fighters a fief (medieval beneficium), a unit of land to control in exchange for a military service.
- 11. type of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy.
- 13. King or queen in charge
- 15. the principle of the separation of government institutions and persons mandated to represent the state from religious institutions and religious dignitaries
- 16. a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god
- 17. three distinct branches: legislative , executive , and judicial , whose powers are vested by the U.S. Constitution in the Congress, the President, and the Federal courts, respectively
- 18. a single central government has total power over all of its other political subdivisions
Down
- 1. people vote for others to run the government
- 2. economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production and workers' self-management of enterprises
- 3. a system in which the powers of the executive and legislative branches are intertwined as opposed to being held separate as a check against each other's power
- 10. the highest class in certain societies, especially those holding hereditary titles or offices
- 12. Has absolute authority in any sphere
- 14. existence of a constitution—which may be a legal instrument or merely a set of fixed norms or principles