A List of Government Terms

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unrelenting

Inflexible; refusing to yield.

foreign exchange student

Pupils who go to another country to study its culture for a set amount of time, usually a year.

General Idi Amin

another dictator like Saddam Hussein ruled the African country of Uganda with an unrelenting and iron-like fist He came to power in 1971 declared Uganda to be a Muslim country foreign missionaries were given 24 hours to leave the country Native Ugandan Christians were not allowed to meet together or to carry Bibles Many who were in disagreement with him were quickly killed In 1972, he expelled all Asians from Uganda Amin would tolerate no insubordination

Dictator Saddam Hussein of Iraq tolerated no opposition within the country, and his decisions went

unquestioned by citizens

Hussein was captured with

weapons and about $750,000 in $100 bills.

Many people feel that the United States is becoming a(n): welfare state dictatorship autocracy

welfare state

habeas corpus is seen as one of the pillars which make our country's freedoms so

outstanding.

welfare state

A country in which the government assumes a large share of the social caretaking of the people

dictator

A leader who has total control over a country, and is unrestrained by law.

habeas corpus

An order to bring an arrested person to court and decide whether the imprisonment is legal.

Louis XVI was a real-life example of __________________ a/an . Dictator Anarchist Autocrat Bureaucrat

Autocrat

legislation

A proposed law.

insubordination

The act of disobedience.

bureaucracy

A system of leaders who carry out the work of the government through the use of departments.

workfare

A system where a person will receive welfare benefits after showing proof of working in a regular job.

who wrote "The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem."

Milton Friedman

VOCAB autocracy

One person has complete control over all branches of government.

If Habeas Corpus did not exist a person could spend an indefinite period of time in jail waiting for their case to go to trial. T/F

T

What agency does this "We support the President, the National Security Council, and all who make and execute US national security policy by: Providing accurate, evidence-based, comprehensive, and timely foreign intelligence related to national security; and Conducting counterintelligence activities, special activities, and other functions related to foreign intelligence and national security as directed by the President."

The C.I.A

Notes "When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property."

Thomas Jefferson

loathe

To hate or abhor.

Who said this about Hussein "Here was a man who was photographed hundreds of times shooting off rifles and showing how tough he was, and in fact, he wasn't very tough, he was cowering in a hole in the ground, and had a pistol and didn't use it and certainly did not put up any fight at all. . .He seemed not terribly brave. . . In the last analysis, here's a man who has killed so many tens of thousands of people who will have to be held accountable and brought to justice in some form, in some way."

U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld

In 1979, when Uganda was at war with neighboring Tanzania ??????

Ugandan rebels allied with Tanzanian troops and drove Amin from the country. Amin was allowed to escape and settle in Saudi Arabia, where he died in August of 2003.

If George Washington had become "King of America" our government might have become: an oligarchy a bureaucracy an autocracy

an autocracy

In what type of government does one person have control over all branches of government? autocracy bureaucracy democracy oligarchy

autocracy

The Canadian province of Quebec had a

bureaucracy which desired to gain independence

QEST A ________ may rule a country with an iron fist and be totally unrestrained by any law of the land. dictator aristocrat bureaucrat anarchistT

dictator

In March of 2003, President George W. Bush ordered a military invasion of Iraq with the goal of

toppling Hussein from power


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