Across
- 4. an economic system in which the government owns the basic means of production, distributes the products and wages, and provides social services such as health care and welfare
- 7. the study of human efforts to satisfy seemingly unlimited wants through the use of limited resources
- 10. a country in which the territory of both the nation and the state coincide
- 11. a government system that divides the powers of government between the national government and state (or provincial) governments
- 12. the institution through which the state maintains social order, provides public services, and enforces binding decisions on citizens
- 14. a system of government in which a small group holds power
- 15. a plan that provides the rules for government
- 17. a government in which people rule
- 18. a government system that gives all key powers to the national or central government
Down
- 1. a government in which voters hold sovereign power and elected officials exercise the power
- 2. a statement in a constitution that sets forth the goals and purposes of government
- 3. the effort to control or influence the conduct and policies of government
- 4. the supreme and absolute authority within territorial boundaries
- 5. theory that people surrender to the state the power needed to maintain order and the state agrees to protect its citizens
- 6. a group of people united by bonds of race, language, custom, tradition, and sometimes religion
- 8. a political community that occupies a definite territory and has an organized government with the power to make and enforce laws without approval from any higher authority
- 9. an agreement about basic beliefs
- 13. autocracy in which a king, queen, or emperor exercises supreme powers of government
- 15. a loose union of independent states
- 16. a system of government in which the power to rule is in the hands of a single individual