- A person who is not a citizen of the nation in which he or she lives.
Your answer:
anti-citizen
alien
monarch
- A form of government in which the central government has authority over all political subdivisions.
Your answer:
fascist government
confederate government
unitary government
- Any government in which the people exercise their political power through elected representatives and in which no public offices are inherited; a nation may be called this if it has established a representative democracy as its form of government.
Your answer:
republic
junta
monarchy
- A small group of military officers who seize power and establish their own government.
Your answer:
junta
constitutional monarchy
oligarchy
- A form of government in which the monarch is mainly a ceremonial head of state and shares authority with an elected legislature.
Your answer:
dictatorship
monarchy
constitutional monarchy
- The right of every citizen to be treated equally under the law and to have equality of opportunity.
Your answer:
civil rights
divine rights
civil liberties
- The personal rights of citizens, such as freedom of speech, thought, and action, as guaranteed by the First Amendment.
Your answer:
civil liberties
civil rights
divine rights
- An independent political unit characterized by its own population, territory, government and sovereignty.
Your answer:
government
state (nation-state)
sovereignty
- A system in which the law applies to government officials as much as to ordinary citizens, and public officials must make decisions based on the law, not on personal opinions or wishes.
Your answer:
autocracy
rule by law
jus sanguinis
- The legal process of granting citizenship to someone who has not acquired it by birth.
Your answer:
allegiance
expatriation
naturalization
- Rule by a small group of people, most often those who control the wealth and social position in a society.
Your answer:
oligarchy
republic
autocracy
- An agreement among the members of a society to create a state and obey its government.
Your answer:
social contract
divine right
naturalization
- A form of government in which people elect a group of citizens to represent them in making laws and establishing public policies.
Your answer:
representative democracy
direct democracy
oligarchy
- Loyalty to one's country.
Your answer:
jus sanguinis
allegiance
sovereignty
- Rule by the people, in which governments are selected by a state's adult citizens and is responsive to their wishes.
Your answer:
aristocracy
democracy
autocracy
- A form of autocracy in which the ruler acquires his or her position of power through inheritance or family ties.
Your answer:
aristocracy
junta
confederation, confederacy
- A political system in which authority is divided between a national government and its political subdivisions (such as states, counties, and cities).
Your answer:
confederation, confederacy
oligarchy
federalism, federation, or federal system
- A form of autocracy in which the ruler acquires his/her position through inheritance or family ties.
Your answer:
oligarchy
monarchy
democracy
- An extreme form of authoritarian government in which the ruler or ruling group attempts to re-shape the state, the people, and the society to conform to an idea or a plan.
Your answer:
totalitarianism
autocracy
limited government
- A form of government in which all citizens have a chance to participate on a first-hand basis.
Your answer:
indirect democracy
direct democracy
representative democracy
- A form of autocracy in which a ruler acquires and maintains leadership through fear and force.
Your answer:
dictatorship
republic
aristocracy
- A form of government in which two or more independent states join together to achieve a common goal and give up their individual sovereignty in other matters.
Your answer:
unitary government
confederation, confederacy
federalism, federation, or federal system
- Rule by one person.
Your answer:
autocracy
democracy
oligarchy
- The special status, including rights and responsibilities, given to a member of a nation.
Your answer:
alienation
majority rule
citizenship
- The process of surrendering citizenship.
Your answer:
expatriation
alienation
naturalization
- The principle that a child's citizenship is based on the child's place of birth.
Your answer:
jus soli
jus sanguinis
territoriality
- The legal principle that a child's citizenship is based on that of the child's parents.
Your answer:
in loco parentis
jus soli
jus sanguinis
- A state's right to rule itself (or, the political authority to act independently).
Your answer:
sovereignty
territoriality
legitimacy
- Governmental power and authority accepted by the people as correct, right, or appropriate.
Your answer:
acceptability
legitimacy
sovereignty
- The belief that royalty's right to rule comes from God.
Your answer:
natural rights
divine right
naturalization
- The process of surrendering citizenship
Your answer:
propaganda
expatriation
naturalization
- A system in which government actions are limited to help ensure individual liberties and equality under the law.
Your answer:
limited government
federalism, federation, or federal system
jus soli
- Any persuasive communication designed to influence people's beliefs, opinions, emotions or actions.
Your answer:
expatriation
propaganda
totalitarianism
- The principle by which people agree to abide by group decisions on which more than half of them agree.
Your answer:
limited government
majority rule
social contract
- Any course of government action directed towards achieving a national goal (also, the rules and regulations that we all follow in a democratic society).
Your answer:
public policy
social contract
legitimacy
- The Greek scholar Aristotle was one of the first people to study the workings of government -- his ideas about people and politics were based on his own experience with this.
Your answer:
territory
state (nation-state)
polis