| A | B |
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| nation-state | made up of a body of people who live within particular territorail boundaries + whoe have a govt. + sovereignty over all the people within the boundaries |
| sovereignty | the supreme power to govern all the people living within a nation-state or country's boundaries |
| evolution theory | govt. developed from the family unit |
| force theory | one strong person or group claims an area + grabs control of people living in it |
| divine right theory | justify power of monarchs |
| social contract theory | argue that free persons unite voluntarilty to form a contract allowing themselves to be ruled |
| unitary government | form of govt. in which power is held by the central govt. |
| federal government | form of govt. in which power is shared by a national govt. + state or regional govts. |
| federalism | pricinciple of govt. in which th epower of govt. is shared b/w the national govt. + state or regional govt. |
| confedereate government | alliance of seperate + individual states |
| direct democracy | form of democracy in which the majority vote of all citizens makes the laws governing them |
| political system | all practices by which the people of the country carry out their political activities+ achieve their goals of govt. |
| democracy | form of govt. in which political power is held by the peole |
