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| state | A political community that occupys a definite territory, an organized gov't woith the power to make & enforce laws w/out approval from higher authority. |
| nation | Group of people united by bonds of race,language, custom,tradition, and sometimes religion. |
| Nation-state | country in which territory of both nation & state coinside. |
| consensus | an agreement about basic beliefs |
| sovereignty | the supreme and absolute authority with in territorial boundries |
| Government | A governing body which serves as the relationship(social order), provides public services, and enforces binding decisions on citizens |
| social contract | theory that by contract people surrender to the state the power needed to maintain order, and the state agrees to protect its citizens. |
| unitary system | gives all key powers to the national and central gov't |
| federal system | powers divided between the nat'l gov't and state gov't |
| confederacy | A loose union of independent states. |
| constitution | a plan that provides the rules for gov't |
| constitutional gov't | a gov't in which a constitution has authority to place clearly recognized limits on powers of those who govern |
| preamble | a statement in the constitution that sets foth the goals and purposes of gov't |
| constitutional law | law that involves the interpetation and application of the us constituiton and state constitution |
| politics | the effort to control or influence the conduct and policys of gov't. |
| industrialized nation | a nation with large industries, advanced tech. that provides a more comfortable way of life then devloping nations |
| developing nation | a nation only beginning to develop industrialy |
| autocracy | A system of gov't in which the power to rule is in the hands of a single individual |
| monarchy | Autocracy in which a queen, king or emporer exercises supreme powers of gov't |
| oligarchy | system of gov't in which a small group holds power |
| democracy | gov't in which the people rule |
| republic | voters are the source of gov't authority |
| political party | A group of individuals with broad common interest who organized to nominate canidates. |
| free enterprise | the opportunity to control ones own economic decisions. |
| economics | the study of human efforts to satisfy seemingly unlimited wants throught the use of limited resources. |
| capitalism | an economic system providing free choice and individule incentives for works, investors, consumers, and buissness interprises |
| free market | economic system in which buyers and sellers make free choices in the market place |
| Laissez-fair | The philosophy that the gov't should keep its hands of the economy |
| socialism | an economic system where the gov't owns the basic mean of production, distributes the products and wages, and provides socail service such as health care and welfare |
| bourgeoisie | capitalist who own the mean of production |
| proletariat | workers who produce the goods |
| communism | a economic system in which the central gov't directs all major economic decisions |
| cammand- economy | an economic system in which the gov't controls the factors of production |
