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| All of the many goals that a government pursues in all of the many areas of human affairs in which it is involved. |
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| The institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies |
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| The power to make a law and to frame public plicies. |
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| the power to execute, enforce, and administer law |
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| The power to interpret laws, to determine their meaning and to settle disputes within the society |
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| the body of fundamental laws setting out the principles, structures, and processes of a government |
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| A form of government in which the leader has absolute power and authority |
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| A form of government in which the supreme authority rests with people |
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| a body of people, living in a defined territory, organized politically and with the power to make and enforce law without the consent of any higer authority. |
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| Having supreme power within its own territory, neither subordinate nor responsibility to any other authority |
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| a form of government in which a single person holds unlimited political power |
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| A form of government in which the power to rule is held by a small, usually self-appointed elite |
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| a centralized government in which all government powers belong to a single, centralized agency |
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| a form of government in which powers are divided between a central government & several local governments |
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| Basic principle of federalism; the constitution provisions by which governmental powers are divided geographically. |
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| a joining of several groups for a common purpose |
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| a form of government in which the executive and legislative branches of the government are separate, independent, coequal |
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| a form of government in which the executive branch is made up of the prime minister, or premier, and that officials cabinet |
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| an adjustment of opposing principles or systems by modifying some aspect of each |
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| An economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods; investments that are determined by private decision rather than by state control and determined in a free market |
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| A law which states that when supplies of goods and services become plentiful, prices tend to drop and as goes the opposite. |
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| An economy in which private enterprise exists in combination with a considerable amount of government regulation and promotion |
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