U.S. Government Vocabulary (All Correct)

Government correct answers 1.1 the formal institutions and processes through which decisions are made for group of people power correct answers the government's authority and ability to get things done sovereignty correct answers the supreme power to act within its territory and to control its external affairs politics correct answers the process by which government makes and carries out decisions legitimacy correct answers right and proper by important segments of a nation's population divine right of kings correct answers made the king answerable only to God, not to the people he ruled. social contract theory correct answers the first governments formed as a result of people agreeing among themselves to submit to the authority of a state monarch correct answers 1.2 the government headed by one person, such as a king or a queen, who exercises supreme authority dictatorship correct answers a system of rule in which one person, a dictator, or small grpup of people can hold unlimited power over government oligarchy correct answers rule by a few, or an aristocracy dictatorships led by small groups of people, usually members of the military or the economic elite. direct democracy correct answers government by the people, citizens are the ultimate source of government authority republic correct answers an indirect form of democracy that places political decision making at least one step away from the people unitary system correct answers sovereignty, or ultimate authority, rests in a single, national government. federal system correct answers divides power over people and territory between a national government and smaller, regional levels of government confederal system correct answers join forces by forming a central government (confederation) presidential system correct answers distinguished by having a president that is elected by the people for a limited term of office