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VOCABULARY

VOCABULARY. Government Systems “Europe Today”. Aristocratic , aristocracy – having to do with royalty/monarchy. Autocratic, autocracy - government in which one person possesses unlimited power and the citizen has little if any role in the government (Example: Cuba). .

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VOCABULARY

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  1. VOCABULARY Government Systems “Europe Today”

  2. Aristocratic , aristocracy – having to do with royalty/monarchy

  3. Autocratic, autocracy - government in which one person possesses unlimited power and the citizen has little if any role in the government (Example: Cuba).

  4. Most dictators maintain their position through inheritance or military power (fear, violence), the citizen has little, if any role in the government. People who try to speak out against the government are often silenced through the use of power.

  5. Chancellor –chief executive in Germany

  6. Chief executive –the #1 person in charge of the country; we call ours PRESIDENT

  7. Confederation –voluntary associations of independent states that, to secure some common purpose, agree to certain limitations on their freedom of action and establish some joint machinery of consultation or deliberation (Example: European Union)

  8. Constitution – document written to describe the way the government of a country will be organized

  9. Czars – another spelling of TSARS: what the king/emperor was called in Russia

  10. Democracy, democratic-political system in which a country’s people elect their leaders and rule by majority;

  11. a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections. (Examples: United Kingdom, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Australia)

  12. Dictator – someone who rules by fear or force, they have all the power, they don’t share power with anybody, has complete rule

  13. Executive –branch of government that includes the head of state (president, premier, prime minister, etc)

  14. Federal – nationallevel, having to do with the entire country, not just the state

  15. Federal (form of government) - characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is divided between one central and several regional authorities. (Examples: Australia, Germany, Russia, Canada, Brazil, and Mexico)

  16. Legislature, legislative – refers to branch of government that makes the LAWS

  17. Monarch – a king or queen, emperor or empress, czar or czarina, usually get their “job” by inheriting it because of their birth

  18. Monarchy – territory ruled by a king or queen (emperor/empress, czar/czarina) who has total power to govern

  19. Oligarchy- government by the few, sometimes a government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes.

  20. (Oligarchy continued…)The citizen has a very limited role. A small group exercises control. Communist countries are mostly oligarchies. The citizen has a very limited role in government.

  21. Parliamentary system –a system of government having the real executive power vested in a cabinet composed of members of the legislature who are individually and collectively responsible to the legislature

  22. (parliamentary continued…) . May have a Prime Minister elected by the legislature. (Example: United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany)

  23. President –head of the executive branch of government in the United States

  24. Presidential system – a system of government in which the president is constitutionally independent of the legislature (Example: Mexico and Brazil)

  25. Prime minister –the head of the government in Canada and United Kingdom

  26. Tsars – another spelling of the word CZARS; what the king/emperor was called in Russia

  27. Unicameral – one house; refers to type of legislative branch of government

  28. Unitary government – characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is held by one central authority (Examples: Cuba and United Kingdom)

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