Forms of Government

Question 1

Civics

Answer 1

the study or science of the privileges and obligations of citizens.

Question 2

Community

Answer 2

a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage.

Question 3

Government

Answer 3

the form or system of rule by which a state, community, etc., is governed

Question 4

Direct Democracy

Answer 4

a form of government in which policies and laws are decided by a majority of all those eligible rather than by a body of elected representatives.

Question 5

Representative

Answer 5

a person or thing that represents another or others.

Question 6

Representative Democracy

Answer 6

a system of government in which citizens elect representatives who propose and vote on legislation or policy initiatives on their behalf

Question 7

Monarchy

Answer 7

supreme power or sovereignty held by a single person.

Question 8

Oligarchy

Answer 8

a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.

Question 9

Majority

Answer 9

a number of voters or votes, jurors, or others in agreement, constituting more than half of the total number.

Question 10

minority

Answer 10

a smaller party or group opposed to a majority, as in voting or other action.

Question 11

Autocracy

Answer 11

government in which one person has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others\

Question 12

Communism

Answer 12

a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.

Question 13

Socialism

Answer 13

a theory or system of social organization that advocates the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, capital, land, etc., by the community as a whole, usually through a centralized government.

Question 14

Totalitarianism

Answer 14

the practices and principles of a totalitarian regime.

Question 15

Head of Government

Answer 15

leads the government, usually in the executive branch

Question 16

Citizen Participation

Answer 16

citizen involvement in public decision making

Question 17

Voting

Answer 17

a formal expression of opinion or choice made by an individual or body of individuals, especially in an election.

Question 18

Legislature

Answer 18

the branch of government having the power to make laws, as distinguished from the executive and judicial branches of government.

Question 19

Anarchy

Answer 19

a state of society without government or law.

Question 20

Tyranny

Answer 20

arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority.