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Mind Map by Brian Sudderth, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Brian Sudderth
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Government
- How is power distributed?
- Unitary
- A state governed as one
single power in which the
central government is
ultimately supreme and
any administrative
divisions exercise only
powers that their central
government chooses to
delegate.
- A state governed as one
single power in which the
central government is
ultimately supreme and
any administrative
divisions exercise only
powers that their central
government chooses to
delegate.
- Confederation
- A confederation is a
system of government
in which sovereign
states delegate power
to a central
government for specific
purposes. Examples:
defense and the
regulation of trade
- A confederation is a
system of government
in which sovereign
states delegate power
to a central
government for specific
purposes. Examples:
defense and the
regulation of trade
- Federal
- The people have not
delegated all the powers
of governing to one
national government.
Certain powers are
delegated
to the national
government. All other
powers are reserved by
the states or the people
The division of power
helps to limit the growth
of tyranny
- The people have not
delegated all the powers
of governing to one
national government.
Certain powers are
delegated
to the national
government. All other
powers are reserved by
the states or the people
The division of power
helps to limit the growth
of tyranny
- Unitary
- How do people get power?
- Autocratic
- Supreme power is
concentrated in the
hands of one person,
whose decisions are
subject to neither
external legal
restraints nor
regularized
mechanisms of
popular control
- Supreme power is
concentrated in the
hands of one person,
whose decisions are
subject to neither
external legal
restraints nor
regularized
mechanisms of
popular control
- Oligarchic
- A form of government run by a small
number of people such as wealthy
landowners, royalty or powerful
military figures.
- A form of government run by a small
number of people such as wealthy
landowners, royalty or powerful
military figures.
- Democratic
- A system of government
in which the power is
given to the people, who
rule either directly or
through electing
representatives. There are
2 main types:
- Parliamentary- A form of
government in which the party or
parties with the greatest
representation in the parliament
forms the government, there
leader becomes the prime minister
or chancellor and has the ability to
dissolve parliament
- Presidential-A form of government,
which is based on the separation and
sharing of powers among three
independent and coordinate branches of
government: legislative, executive, and
judicial. The head of the executive
branch is know as the president and he
is known as the commander and chief of
the military
- Parliamentary- A form of
government in which the party or
parties with the greatest
representation in the parliament
forms the government, there
leader becomes the prime minister
or chancellor and has the ability to
dissolve parliament
- A system of government
in which the power is
given to the people, who
rule either directly or
through electing
representatives. There are
2 main types:
- Autocratic
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