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Tavel Gov Terms 6th
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Federation | a country which has a federal system of distributing power |
| Republic | a country which has a representative democracy – |
| Russia | a federal system with a presidential democracy and a premier/prime minister appointed by the elected president. Citizens vote, but not fairly -no press freedom. The people are partly free. The real situation is that Putin has most of the power. |
| Federal | a form of government in which power is divided/shared between one central and several regional authorities |
| Unitary | a form of government in which power is held by one central authority – |
| Democracy | a government in which the supreme power is held by the people and exercised by them either directly by voting or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections – |
| Representative Democracy | a government where the people have the power and use it to elect officials who will make decisions for them in the government. Citizens can also remove these officials – |
| the United Kingdom | a parliamentary system whose chief executive is called a Prime Minister, and a constitutional monarch with only ceremonial power. Has a unitary system of distributing power. Citizens vote, and have all modern rights and freedoms. – |
| Germany | a parliamentary system whose prime minister is called a Chancellor, and a ceremonial President. Is a federal system of distributing power. The role of the citizen is to vote, and citizens have all modern rights and freedoms. |
| Presidential Democracy | a system of government in which the chief executive is constitutionally independent of the legislature and directly elected by the citizens – |
| Theocracy | government by religious leaders |
| Oligarchy | government by the few, sometimes a government in which a small group exercises control, especially for corrupt and selfish purposes. The citizen has a very limited role – |
| Autocracy | government in which one person possesses unlimited power and the citizen has little if any role |
| Absolute Monarchy | government in which one person possesses unlimited power gained through heredity – |
| Dictatorship | government in which one person possesses unlimited power which is not hereditary, but usually gained through force |
| Parliamentary Democracy | the real executive power held by a cabinet made of members of the legislature who are individually and collectively responsible to the legislature. A Prime Minister is elected by the legislature, and still part of it as well – |
| Confederation | voluntary associations of independent states that, for a common purpose, agree to certain limitations on their freedom of action, and establish a weak central authority to hold the association together – |
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