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| Representative Democracy (Republic) | Citizens elect leaders to represent their rights and interests in government |
| Direct Democracy | Citizens are directly involved in the day to day governing of the country. |
| Anarchy (State of Nature) | Living without laws or government. |
| Oligarchy | A small group of people have all the power. |
| Constitution | A detailed, written plan that explains powers and limitations for the government. |
| Autocracy | A government in which one person has all the power. |
| Monarchy | A king or queen rules the country, usually power is inherited. |
| Dictatorship | One leader has absolute control over citizens’ lives. |
| Constitutional Monarchy | The king or queen shares power with elected officials. The king/queen’s power is limited by a constitution |
| Absolute Monarchy | ruler (king/queen) with complete control over the government and the lives of the people |
| Communism | a one- party system of government based on the idea of state ownership and direction of property and industry; developed by Karl Marx |
| Confederation | a system of government where power is located with the independent states and there is little power in the central government |
| Federal System of Government | the sharing of power between the central and state governments |
| Governor | an elected person in charge of the executive branch of a U.S. state |
| Parliamentary System of Government | Is a democratic government in which the executive branch is elected/selected by the legislative branch ( parliament) |
| Prime Minister | the head of an elected government state; voted in office by the legislative branch |
| Socialism | system in which government owns some factors of production and distributes the products and wages |
| Unitary System of Governmen | The central government has all the power and delegates to lower levels. |
| Checks and Balances | a principle of the federal government, according to the U.S. Constitution, that allows each branch of government to limit the power of the other branches |
| Limited Government | a government that has been limited in power by a constitution, or written agreement |
| Limited Monarchy | a system of government in which the king or queen shares authority with an elected legislature and agrees to be bound by a constitution or a set of laws, also known as a constitutional monarchy |
| Rule of Law | principle that the law applies to everyone , even those who govern (example - US v. Nixon) |
| U.S. v. Nixon | The Supreme Court ruled in 1974 that no person is above the law, and the president can't use executive privilege as an excuse to withhold evidence from a trial. |
