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EOC-RG: Sec 1 (Prt1) - Principles of Government

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  • Q1
    What is government
    paris
    rome
    london
    the policies citizens implement to run themselves
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  • Q2
    Define sovereignty:
    The institution through which society makes and enforces its public policies
    All of the many goals that a government pursues in all of the many areas of human affairs in which it is involved
    Having supreme power within a territory. Being sovereign means you are neither subordinate nor responsible to any other authority.
    Government actions that affect states, corporations, groups, or individuals inside America's borders
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  • Q3
    What is public policy?
    Having supreme power within a territory, neither subordinate nor responsible to any other authority
    Government actions that affect states, corporations, groups, or individuals inside America's borders
    The institution through which society makes and enforces its public policies
    All of the many goals that a government pursues in all of the many areas of human affairs in which it is involved
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  • Q4
    Briefly describe the following public policies: Domestic
    Government decisions about how to influence the economy using control of the money supply and interest rates
    Government decisions about how to influence the economy by taxing and spending
    Government actions that affect countries, corporations, groups, or individuals outside America's borders
    Government actions that affect states, corporations, groups, or individuals inside America's borders
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  • Q5
    Briefly describe the following public policies: Foreign
    Government actions that affect states, corporations, groups, or individuals inside America's borders
    Government decisions about how to influence the economy using control of the money supply and interest rates
    Government actions that affect countries, corporations, groups, or individuals outside America's borders
    Government decisions about how to influence the economy by taxing and spending
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  • Q6
    Briefly describe the following public policies: Monetary
    Government decisions about how to influence the economy by taxing and spending
    Government decisions about how to influence the economy using control of the money supply and interest rates
    Government actions that affect countries, corporations, groups, or individuals outside America's borders
    Government actions that affect states, corporations, groups, or individuals inside America's borders
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  • Q7
    Briefly describe the following public policies: Fiscal
    Government decisions about how to influence the economy using control of the money supply and interest rates
    Government actions that affect countries, corporations, groups, or individuals outside America's borders
    Government actions that affect states, corporations, groups, or individuals inside America's borders
    Government decisions about how to influence the economy by taxing and spending
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  • Q8
    What is politics?
    the term that describes the decision and the rule of more than half of the people who vote and disregards the choice of people who don't vote
    Government decisions about how to influence the economy by taxing and spending
    The process that determines what government does
    Government decisions about how to influence the economy using control of the money supply and interest rates
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  • Q9
    What is majority rule?
    the term that describes the decision and the rule of more than half of the people who vote and disregards the choice of people who don't vote
    basic principle of American government which states that government is restricted in what it may do, and each individual has rights that government cannot take away
    a government led by a hereditary ruler (royalty)
    centralized control by an autocratic authority. It is a type of government with the political concept that the citizen should be totally subject to an absolute state authority
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  • Q10
    What is limited government?
    has centralized control by an autocratic authority. It is a type of government with the political concept that the citizen should be totally subject to an absolute state authority
    a basic principle of American government which states that government is restricted in what it may do, and each individual has rights that government cannot take away
    a government led by a hereditary ruler (royalty)
    a government led by religious leaders
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  • Q11
    What is totalitarian government?
    a government led by a hereditary ruler (royalty)
    a government led by religious leaders
    government that has centralized control by an autocratic authority. It is a type of government with the political concept that the citizen should be totally subject to an absolute state authority
    a form of government in which the power to rule is held by a small, usually self-appointed elite
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  • Q12
    Define the following forms of government: Monarchy
    a government led by a hereditary ruler (royalty)
    every person votes on every political policy issue (law)
    a government led by religious leaders
    a form of government in which the power to rule is held by a small, usually self-appointed elite
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  • Q13
    Define the following forms of government: Theocracy
    every person votes on every political policy issue (law)
    a government led by religious leaders
    a government led by a hereditary ruler (royalty)
    a form of government in which the power to rule is held by a small, usually self-appointed elite
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  • Q14
    Define the following forms of government: Oligarchy
    a form of government in which the power to rule is held by a small, usually self-appointed elite
    a government led by a hereditary ruler (royalty)
    government is restricted in what it may do
    a government led by religious leaders
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  • Q15
    What is direct democracy?
    In direct democracy, every person votes on every political policy issue (law) brought before the government. (think Greece)
    the people elect officials represent them and participate in government and vote on their behalf.
    a government led by religious leaders
    a form of government in which the power to rule is held by a small, usually self-appointed elite
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  • Q16
    What is indirect democracy (also known as representative democracy)?
    In an indirect democracy (which we have in the U.S.), the people elect officials to represent them. Those representative participate in government and vote on their voters' behalf.
    every person votes on every political policy issue (law) brought before the government.
    a government led by a hereditary ruler (royalty)
    a government led by religious leaders
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  • Q17
    What is parliamentary democracy?
    a centralized government in which all government powers belong to a single, central agency
    a joining of several groups for a common purpose
    A system of government in which legislative and executive powers are separated. The electorate (voters) selects the chief executive (President) who forms their cabinet based upon their own criteria
    A system of government in which legislative and executive power are closely joined. The legislature (parliament) selects the chief executive (prime minister) who forms the cabinet from members of the parliament.
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  • Q18
    What is a Presidential democracy?
    A system of government in which legislative and executive power are closely joined. The legislature (parliament) selects the chief executive (prime minister) who forms the cabinet from members of the parliament
    a joining of several groups for a common purpose
    A system of government in which legislative and executive powers are separated. The electorate (voters) selects the chief executive (President) who forms their cabinet based upon their own criteria
    a centralized government in which all government powers belong to a single, central agency (
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  • Q19
    Define the following distributions of government power: Unitary
    a joining of several groups for a common purpose
    a centralized government in which all government powers belong to a single, central agency
    The process or system by which goods and services are produced, sold, and bought in a country or region
    : a system of government in which a written constitution divides power between a central (national) government and several regional (state)
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  • Q20
    Define the following distributions of government power: Confederate system (a Confederation)
    a system of government in which a written constitution divides power between a central (national) government and several regional (state)
    a centralized government in which all government powers belong to a single, central agency
    a joining of several groups for a common purpose
    The process or system by which goods and services are produced, sold, and bought in a country or region
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