Gov Vocab 1 2024/2025 Exam Questions
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Government - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The institution through which a society
makes and enforces its public policies
public policy - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A choice that government makes in response
to a political issue. A policy is a course of action taken with regard to some
problem.
legislative power - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the power to make a law and to frame
public policies
executive power - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the power to execute, enforce, and
administer law
Judicial Power - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the power to interpret laws, to determine
their meaning, and to settle disputes that arise within the society
state - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An area organized into a political unit and ruled by
an established government with control over its internal and foreign affairs.
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, Constitution - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A written plan of government
Sovereignty - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Ability of a state to govern its territory free
from control of its internal affairs by other states.
Democracy - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A political system in which the supreme power
lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
Dictatorship - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A form of government in which the leader has
absolute power and authority.
Monarchy - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A government ruled by a king or queen
Autocracy - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a system of government by one person with
absolute power.
Oligarchy - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A government ruled by a few powerful people
Unitary Government - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A centralized government in which all
government powers belong to a single, central agency.
Federal Government - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A form of government in which
powers are divided between a central government and several local
governments.
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PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Marking Scheme New Update | A+ Rated
Government - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The institution through which a society
makes and enforces its public policies
public policy - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A choice that government makes in response
to a political issue. A policy is a course of action taken with regard to some
problem.
legislative power - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the power to make a law and to frame
public policies
executive power - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the power to execute, enforce, and
administer law
Judicial Power - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the power to interpret laws, to determine
their meaning, and to settle disputes that arise within the society
state - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An area organized into a political unit and ruled by
an established government with control over its internal and foreign affairs.
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PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, Constitution - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A written plan of government
Sovereignty - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Ability of a state to govern its territory free
from control of its internal affairs by other states.
Democracy - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A political system in which the supreme power
lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
Dictatorship - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A form of government in which the leader has
absolute power and authority.
Monarchy - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A government ruled by a king or queen
Autocracy - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a system of government by one person with
absolute power.
Oligarchy - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A government ruled by a few powerful people
Unitary Government - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A centralized government in which all
government powers belong to a single, central agency.
Federal Government - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A form of government in which
powers are divided between a central government and several local
governments.
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