Social Studies-Government

the study of citizenship and govermnet, usually having to do with the rights and duties of citizens

institutions and procedures through which a territory and its people are ruled

a high level of society within a society

a form of goverment in which political control is exercised by all the people, either directly or through their elected representative

a goverment system rooted in the consent of the governed, whose power is exercised by elected representatives responsible to the goverened

a government system controlled by one ruler who has absolute power and usually controls by force

governed by a monarch king or queen, emporer or empress

a form of government in which the supreme power is placed in the hands of a few persons

a government system that is ruled by religious leaders

in a state this is the Ultimate Supreme Power

-makes and writes laws

-made up of the House of Representatives and the Senate

-enforces laws

-the people in the White House

-the President and Vice President

-Obama

-interpret and apply laws

-judges

-Supreme Court