| A | B |
|---|
| federalism | divded power between nation & state |
| sovereignty | supreme & absolute authority in a territory |
| confederacy | loose alliance of interdependent states |
| anarchy | no government, laws, or rules |
| dictator | uses force to gain & keep power |
| direct democracy | every citizen has = power & decision-making |
| autocracy | power to rule is with 1 person |
| representative government | power & choices are made by representatives |
| oligarchy | government made & run by a small group |
| Evolutionary Theory | head of primitive family is authority |
| John Locke | Social Contract Theory |
| monarchy | single leader who gets power from inheritance |
| Legislative Branch | Congress |
| Charles Montesquieu | 3 branches of government |
| Divine Right Theory | God has chosen certain people to rule |
| democracy | government is ruled by citizens |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | government is not needed |
| Unitary Government | central leading body of government |
| authoritarian government | government controls all aspects of life |
| Force Theory | people brought under authority of 1 person or group |
