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Social final
chapter 9 and 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Democracy | A system of government in which people freely choose in elections who will govern them |
| Suffrage | is the right of women to vote on the same terms as men |
| Communism | A social and economical ideology that property, production and distribution of goods and services should be owned by the public, and labour force should be organized for the benefit of all members of a society |
| Capitalism | An economic system in which the production and distribution of goods owned privately or by shareholders in corporations that have invested money in hope of making profit |
| Fascism | is a radical nationalist political ideology. Fascists organize a country according to a nationalist corporatist values and perspectives, enforcing a collectivist form of political and economic organization based on a prescribed national identity |
| Governor General | is a person of a monarch in a major colonial cir-conscription. Depending on the political arrangement of the territory, a Governor General can be a governor of high rank, or a principal governor |
| Head of State | is the individual or collective office that serves as the chief public representative of a monarchy, republic, federation, commonwealth or other kind of state. |
| Head of Government | is the chief officer of the executive branch of a government, often presiding over a cabinet. |
| Parliament | is a legislature, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modeled after that of the United Kingdom. |
| Riding/Electoral District | ) is a distinct territorial subdivision for holding a separate election for one or more seats in a legislative body. |
| Constituent | is a fundamental part of a union which has come together with others to form the union, e.g. US States, or UK constituent countries. |
| Member of Parliament | is a representative of the voters to a parliament. |
| House of Commons | is the name of the elected lower house of the bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada and historically was the name of the lower houses of Ireland and North Carolina. |
| Senate | is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a legislature or parliament. |
| Executive Branch | s the part of government that has sole authority and responsibility for the daily administration of the state bureaucracy. |
| Legislative Branch | is a kind of deliberative assembly with the power to pass, amend, and repeal laws. |
| Cabinet | is a body of high ranking members of the government, typically representing the executive branch. It can also sometimes be referred to as the Council of Ministers, an Executive Council, or an Executive Committee. |
| Direct Democracy | is a form of democracy and a theory of civics in which sovereignty is lodged in the assembly of all citizens who choose to participate. |
| Representative Democracy | is a form of government founded on the principle of elected individuals representing the people, as opposed to autocracy and direct democracy. |
| Constitutional monarchy | is a form of government in which a monarch acts as head of state within the parameters of a written (i.e., codified), unwritten (i.e., uncodified) or blended constitution. |
| Federal system | is a political concept in which a group of members are bound together by covenant with a governing representative head. |
| Prime minister | is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. |
| Vote of non-confidence | is a parliamentary motion traditionally put before a parliament by the opposition in the hope of defeating or weakening a government, or, rarely by an erstwhile supporter who has lost confidence in the government. |
| Caucus | is a meeting of supporters or members of a political party or movement, especially in the United States. |
| Deputy Minister | a Deputy Minister is the senior civil servant in a government department and assists the Minister assigned responsibility for the department in day-to-day operations. |
| Backbencher | is a Member of Parliament (MP) or a legislator who does not hold governmental office and is not a Front Bench spokesperson in the Opposition. |
| Party Whip | is an official in a political party whose primary purpose is to ensure party discipline in a legislature. |
| Speaker of the House | is a title often given to the presiding officer (chair) of a deliberative assembly, especially a legislative body. |
| Mace | In a debate, competitions can be named The Mace after the ceremonial mace used in parliamentsIn a debate, competitions can be named The Mace after the ceremonial mace used in parliaments |
| Shadow Cabinet | is a senior group of opposition spokespeople in the Westminster system of government who together under the leadership of the Leader of the Opposition form an alternative cabinet |
| Public servants | is a civilian public sector employee working for a government department or agency. |
| Sergeant-at-Arms | is an officer appointed by a deliberative body, usually a legislature, to keep order during its meetings |
| Leader of the Opposition | is a title traditionally held by the leader of the largest party not in government in a Westminster System of parliamentary government. |
| Patronage | is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows to another. |
| Supreme court | is in some jurisdictions the highest judicial body within that jurisdiction's court system, whose rulings are not subject to further review by another court. |
| Legislative Assembly | is the name given in some countries to either a legislature, or to one of its branch. |
| Lieutenant-Governor | is a high officer of state, whose precise role and rank vary by jurisdiction, but is often the deputy or lieutenant to or ranking under a governor — a "second-in-command". |
| Mayor | s the highest ranking officer in a municipal government of local town or large urban city. |
| Councilors | is a member of a local or regional council, such as a city council. |
| By-laws | can refer to a law of local or limited application, passed under the authority of a higher law specifying what things may be regulated by the bylaw, or it can refer to the internal rules of a company or organization. |
| Party Platform | is a list of the actions which a political party supports in order to appeal to the general public for the purpose of having said party's candidates voted into office. |
| Official party status | refers to the Canadian practice of recognizing political parties in the Parliament of Canada and the provincial legislatures. |
| Universal franchise | consists of the extension of the right to vote to adult citizens (or subjects) as a whole, though it may also mean extending said right to minors and non-citizens. |
| Chief Electoral Officer | The Chief Electoral Officer is the person responsible for overseeing elections in Canada. |
| polling station | A polling place or polling station is where voters cast their ballots in elections. |
| Regionalism | is a political ideology that focuses on the interests of a particular region or group of regions, whether traditional or formal |
| Majority Government | there is a majority government when the governing party has an absolute majority of seats in the legislature or parliament. |
| Minority Government | is a cabinet of a parliamentary system formed when a political party or coalition of parties does not have a majority of overall seats in the parliament but is sworn into government to break a Hung Parliament election result. |
| Coalition Government | is a cabinet of a parliamentary government in which several parties cooperate. |
| First-past-the-post-system | The first-past-the-post voting method, although similar in design, does not relate solely to plurality voting. |
| Popular vote | is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office. |
| Proportional Representation | is a goal of voting systems. |
| interest group | is a group of individuals or organizations with interest in a shared area. |
| Civil disobedience | is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. (ghandi) |
| Judicial branch | is the system of courts that interprets and applies the law in the name of the state. |
| Rule of Law | is a legal maxim that states no person is immune to law. |
| Provincial Court | in Canada are local trial "inferior" or "lower" courts of limited jurisdiction established in each of the provinces and territories of Canada. |
| Supreme Court of British Columbia | is the superior trial court for the Canadian province of British Columbia. |
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