Political Terms

Question 1

What does the suffix “-acy” mean?

Answer 1

State

Question 2

What is an example of a word that uses “-acy”?

Answer 2

Democracy

Question 3

What does the suffix “-archy” mean?

Answer 3

Rule

Question 4

What is an example of a word that uses “-archy”?

Answer 4

Monarchy

Question 5

What does the suffix “-ism” mean?

Answer 5

Doctrine (principle based on a set of beliefs – religious, political, scientific, etc.)

Question 6

What is an example of a word that uses “-ism”?

Answer 6

Communism

Question 7

Where does the word Anarchy come from?

Answer 7

It is from the Greek word = no rule

Question 8

What does Anarchy mean?

Answer 8

• A society without government and/or law.
• Without institutions such as an organized church, school, courts, police, etc.
• It is a belief that all government is bad because it exploits.

Question 9

What is Aristocracy?

Answer 9

A government ruled by a privileged (often noble class) group of people determined by wealth or birth; usually called nobles and power is inherited.

Question 10

What is Autocracy?

Answer 10

A system of government in which unlimited power is formally vested in one person

Question 11

What is an absolute monarch?

Answer 11

A monarch ruling without restriction

Question 12

What is an example of an Autocracy or Absolute Monarch?

Answer 12

Czar Nicholas II.

Question 13

What Communism?

Answer 13

A belief that the private ownership of land, factories, banks, etc. should be replaced by the public ownership of all.

Question 14

Where does the word Democracy come from?

Answer 14

from the Greek word for = rule by the people

Question 15

What is a Democracy?

Answer 15

A government with supreme power vested in the people and exercised by them or their elected agents/representatives.

Question 16

What does Universal Suffrage recognize?

Answer 16

The right of all people to participate in elections.

Question 17

What is a quote about democracy?

Answer 17

Government “of the people, by the people, for the people”—Abraham Lincoln.

Question 18

What is Direct Democracy?

Answer 18

Where every citizen has the opportunity to participate in the discussion of public issues and the making of all public decisions.

Question 19

What is representative democracy?

Answer 19

Where citizens have the opportunity to elect who

they wish to represent them and their wishes.

Question 20

What is a dictatorship?

Answer 20

• An autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual, the dictator.
• A dictatorship is a form of government that has the power to govern without consent of those being governed.

Question 21

What is Divine Right of Kings?

Answer 21

A concept in which monarchs were believed to be chosen by God and as such one could not speak out against the authority or right of the King (or Queen) to rule.

Question 22

Why was the Divine Right of Kings Very successful?

Answer 22

Because defiance would be like speaking out against God – a blasphemous act that would ensure an eternity in purgatory for those who spoke out.

Question 23

What is a Dynasty?

Answer 23

A long sequence of rulers from the same family,

Question 24

What is an example of a Dynasty?

Answer 24

Queen Elizabeth II, The House of Windsor.

Question 25

What is Fascism?

Answer 25

A political system with the goals of the nation more important than individual goals.
It is a right wing system of government in which the executive power (the dictator) has control over the legislative power (the parliament).

Question 26

What is a Monarchy?

Answer 26

A government in which power is vested in a king or emperor who can pass power on to his heirs

Question 27

What is another word for Monarchy?

Answer 27

Queen Elizabeth II, England.

Question 28

Where does the word Monarchy come from?

Answer 28

from the Greek = rule of one alone

Question 29

What is nationalism?

Answer 29

• A belief or doctrine in which people feel a sense of belonging to something greater than themselves.
• This belonging may be based upon one or several of the following characteristics: political, religious, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, or social.

Question 30

What is Nationalism (Political)?

Answer 30

• A feeling of devotion to national interests, national unity; independence, sovereignty.
• With respect to self-determination, people of a common heritage (language, religion, culture, history) wish to form their own country.

Question 31

What is an example of Nationalism?

Answer 31

The love for or pride one takes in one’s own country is known as patriotism.

Question 32

What is an Oligarchy?

Answer 32

A government in which a few people such as a dominant clan, group or clique have power. Powerful minority controls majority,

Question 33

What is a Plutocracy?

Answer 33

A government in which the wealthy class rules.

Question 34

What is an example of Oligarchy?

Answer 34

South Africa Apartheid; Military Junta Myanmar.

Question 35

What is a Republic?

Answer 35

• A state without a monarchy.

- The people are represented by elected individuals. ——Political sovereignty rests with the citizens of the state,

Question 36

What is an example of a Republic?

Answer 36

USA

France

Question 37

What is a Theocracy?

Answer 37

• A system of government by people who claim a divine right to rule, religious principals form the basis of law and rule.
• Governments are run by priests or religious leaders in the name of their God

Question 38

What is an example of a theocracy?

Answer 38

Vatican, the Pope

Question 39

What is Totalitarianism?

Answer 39

Centralized government with absolute control by one political party,

Question 40

What is an example of Totalitarianism?

Answer 40

Communist, Fascist.