Unit 4: Political geography

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Unit 4Political geography
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Unit 4 Political Geography

• In this unit, you will learn about governments
  and their impact on geography. You will learn
  about the different types of governments and how
  they create borders between one another

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Essential Question

• What is the best form of government?

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UNIT 4 Political GeographyTerms

• Government
• Monarchy
• Constitutional monarchy
• Republic
• Democracy
• Direct democracy

Politics Representative democracy Dictatorship To
talitarianism Theocracy
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Government

• The person or group of persons that exercise
  control or rule over a political unit.

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Politics

• The science concerned with guiding or influencing
  government.

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Monarchy (absolute)

• Undivided absolute rule or authority by a single
  person to govern. Usually inherited by family
  line (father to son or daughter)

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Constitutional monarchy

• monarchy that is limited by laws and a
  constitution.

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Totalitarianism

• Political concept that the citizen should be
  totally subject to an absolute state authority

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direct democracy

• (pure democracy) is a form of democracy in which
  the people themselves, rather than elected
  representatives, determine the laws and policies
  by which they are governed.

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Representative democracy

• a form of democracy in which the people elect
  representatives empowered to create laws and
  policies. Ideally, the laws and policies enacted
  by the elected representatives reflect the will
  of the people..

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Sources

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