Government & Human rights Flashcards
(19 cards)
What is GOVERNMENT?
A system of running a country or state
What is DEMOCRACY?
Is government by all of the people. All citizens above a certain age get to vote. They have laws to protect Human Rights.
What is a PARLIAMENT?
A council of members that make laws & decisions with a King or Queen as its head.
What is a REPUBLIC?
A supreme leader, usually a president, is elected by people
What is a MONARCHY?
A monarch is a country where the task of Head of State is inherited (King or Queen)
What is a PRESIDENT?
The Head of a Republican state
What is a DICTATORSHIP?
Is when one person or party controls the country. There are no fair elections & usually Human Rights abuse.
What is ANARCHY?
Where there is not a government
What is COMMUNISM?
Is when there is usually a dictatorship & in theory everyone is equal. The government controls all business & farms
What is FACISM?
Is when there is one powerful leader & only one party. It’s usually a racist state.
What is AUTOCRACY?
Is when one person rules
When did women get rights in NZ?
1893
What is the date of the Declaration of Human Rights & who made it?
1948.
Made by the UN (United Nations)
eg #4 = no slavery
When was the Abolition of Slavery & what did it say?
1807
No ownership of ,or trade in slaves
Who is the Head of State in NZ?
The Governor General
What electorate is Blenheim in?
Kaikoura electorate
A few facts on Hitler
1889, Hitler was born
1941, Hitler begins to prepare for the ‘Final Solution’
1945, Hitler commits suicide
A few facts on Nazi Germany
Ruled by Hitler
Hated the Jews
Built Concentration Camps, eg Auschwitz
What was the STOLEN GENERATION?
Aboriginal children taken from their parents, in Oz.
Between 1910 & 1970, up to 100,000 children were taken. Many suffered physical & sexual abuse & living conditions were very poor. The main motive was to ‘assimilate’ aboriginal children into European society over one or two generations, by denying & destroying their aboriginality.
