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| System of government in which one person has great power. |
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| Class in the Industrial Society |
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| Economic system in which freedom of choice and individual incentive for workers, investors, consumers, and business enterprises are emphasized. |
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| Decisions are made at the upper levels of government and handed down to managers. |
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| Where are aspects of life are controlled by the government |
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| A loose union of independent states |
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| Constitutional Government |
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| A government in which a constitution has authority to place clearly recognized limits on the powers of those who govern |
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| A plan that provides the rules of government |
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| Law that involves the interpretation and application of the U.S. constitution and state constitutions |
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| Democracy is a form of government in which all eligible citizens are meant to participate equally |
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| A developing country, also called a less-developed country, is a nation with a lower living standard, underdeveloped industrial base, and low Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries. |
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| The divine right of kings, or divine-right theory of kingship, is a political and religious doctrine of royal and political legitimacy. It asserts that a monarch is subject to no earthly authority, deriving the right to rule directly from the will of God. |
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| the branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth. |
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| The critical break from the concept of fixed species in biology began with the theory of evolution by natural selection, which was formulated by Charles Darwin. |
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| The critical break from the concept of fixed species in biology began with the theory of evolution by natural selection, which was formulated by Charles Darwin. |
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| The force theory states that either a small group or a single person took domination over an area. Then, the residents residing in this area are forced to succumb to that person or group’s law |
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| an economic system in which private business operates in competition and largely free of state control. |
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| an economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses. |
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| he governing body of a nation, state, or community. |
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| A term used by political scientists and economists to describe a country whose level of economic development ranks it somewhere between the developing and first-world classifications. |
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| the fact or state of being independent. |
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| John Locke FRS, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and known as the "Father of Classical Liberalism". |
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| a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering. |
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| a form of government with a monarch at the head. |
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| Multinational Corporation |
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| A corporation that has its facilities and other assets in at least one country other than its home country. |
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| a large aggregate of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory. |
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| a sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent. |
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| a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution. |
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| A political party is defined as an organised group of people with at least roughly similar political aims and opinions, that seeks to influence public policy by getting its candidates elected to public office. |
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| the activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power. |
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| a preliminary or preparatory statement; an introduction. |
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| workers or working-class people, regarded collectively |
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| a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch. |
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| an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits |
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| Social contract theory, nearly as old as philosophy itself, is the view that persons' moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they live. |
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| a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. |
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| a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. |
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| the particular condition that someone or something is in at a specific time. |
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| a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god. |
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| Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, in some older texts Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury, was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy |
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| Totalitarianism or totalitarian state is a concept used by some political scientists in which the state holds total authority over the society and seeks to control all aspects of public and private life wherever possible. |
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| A unitary system of government, or unitary state, is a sovereign state governed as a single entity. The central government is supreme, and the administrative divisions exercise only powers that the central government has delegated to them. |
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