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| an ongoing organization that performs certain functions for society. |
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| the process of resolving conflicts over how sociaty should use its scarce resources and who should reveive various benefits, such as public health care and public higher education. Harold Lasswell said it is "who gets what, when, where, and how." |
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| the individuals and institutions that make society's rules and that also possess the power and authority to enforce those rules. |
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| the ability to influence the behavior of otehrs, usually through the use of force, persuasion, or rewards. |
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| the ability to exercise power, such as the power to make and enforce laws, legitimately-accepted by society as legally and morally correct. |
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| Essential Public Services |
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| individuals cannot provide services for themselves such as law enforcement, fire protection, national defense, public schools, roads.... |
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| a form of autocracy (one person rule) (usually inherited) in which a king, queen, emperor, empress, tsar, or tsarina is the highest authority in the government. |
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| this theory states that the right to rule by a king or queen was derived directly from God rather than the consent of the people. |
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| a form of government where one person rules with absolute power by force. |
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| a form of government in which the people have the ultimate political authority. From the greek words Demos and Kratia. |
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| a system of government in which the people decisions are made by the peole themselves rather than by the elected representatives. This form of government was practiced in some areas of ancient Greece and modern New England town hall meetings. |
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| a form of government where the will of the majority is expressed through smaller groups of induviduals elected by the people to act as their representatives. Also called a republic. |
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| based on the principal that the powers of the Gov. should be clearly limited either through a written document or through wide public understanding, and include checks on power. |
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| made up of two chambers. The U.S. Congress is made up of the House and the Senate. |
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| a voluntary agreement among induviduals to create a government and to give that government adequate power to secure the mutual protection and welfare of all induviduals. (E.G. the Mayflower Compact) |
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| Not bestowed bu governments but are inherent within every person by virtue of the fact that they are human. |
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| the set of ideas, values, and attitude about government and the political process held by a community or nation. |
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| the freedom of induviduals to express themselves freely so long as doing so does not infringe on the right of others. |
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| a concept that holds at a minimum, that all people are entitled to equal protection under the law. |
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| a system of a political ideas that are rooted in religious or philosophical beliefs concerning human nature, society, and government. |
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| a set of political ideas that includes the advocacy of active government intervention to improve the welfare of individuals and protect civil rights. |
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| persons on the extreme left |
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| a set of beliefs about government having a limited role in helping induviduals, limited regulation of the economy, limited change, limited change, and supports traditional values and lifestyles. |
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| includes those reactionaries who want to return to some previous era-old fashioned, and libertarians who believe in no regulation of the economy and individual behavior except for law enforcement and national defense. |
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