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- 2. sovereignty -principle that the authority of the government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives
- 3. of powers -separation of powers
- 6. -the popular acceptance of an authority, usually a governing law or a régime.
- 8. by law -is the legal principle that law should govern a nation, as opposed to arbitrary decisions by individual government officials.
- 9. government -government of a country by its own people, especially after having been a colony.
- 11. rights -Rights that people supposedly have under natural law.
- 12. -of or relating to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.
- 15. system -favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom.
- 16. -an organization that consists of a number of parties or groups united in an alliance or league.
- 18. system - A form of government in which power is explicitly vested in the people, who in turn exercise their power through elected representatives.
- 19. government -The laws and the Constitution limit the government's power.
- 20. -government by a dictator.
- 23. policy -the principles, often unwritten, on which social laws are based.
- 24. -the ability to produce a desired or intended result.
- 25. -the federal principle or system of government.
- 26. system -A system of government in which power is vested in the people, who rule either directly or through freely elected representatives
- 27. by men -a society in which one person, or a group of persons, rules arbitrarily.
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- 1. freedom -is the absence of interference with the sovereignty of an individual by the use of coercion or aggression.
- 4. government -A group of nations or states, or a government encompassing several states or political divisions.
- 5. -a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution.
- 7. -a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.
- 10. government -system of democratic governance of a state in which the executive branch derives its democratic legitimacy from.
- 13. government -A political system in which legalized force is restricted through delegated and enumerated powers.
- 14. -a system of government by one person with absolute power.
- 16. -a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.
- 17. -the governing body of a nation, state, or community.
- 19. government -a sovereign state governed as a single entity.
- 21. -supreme power or authority.
- 22. government -head of state and leads an executive branch that is separate from the legislative branch.
- 23. institution -is a juristic person in the United States which is backed through public funds and controlled by the state.