NES Elementary Education Subtest 1: Social Studies (full set) Questions and Answers Graded A+

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NES Elementary Education Subtest 1: Social Studies (full set) Questions and Answers Graded A+ legislative branch ✔✔made up of the two houses of Congress—the Senate and the House of Represent... atives. The most important duty of the legislative branch is to make laws. executive branch ✔✔vested in the President of the United States, who also acts as head of state and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. judicial branch ✔✔the power to interpret laws and settle disputes authoritarian governments ✔✔a form of government characterized by strong central power and limited political freedoms. Individual freedoms are subordinate to the state and there is no constitutional accountability under an authoritarian regime. EX. China, Myanmar, Cuba and Iran democratic government ✔✔A system of government in which power is vested in the people, who rule either directly or through freely elected representatives. autocracies ✔✔a system of government in which supreme power is concentrated in the hands of one person, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control. There are two main types of autocracy: a monarchy and a dictatorship. oligarchies ✔✔in some authoritarian governments, a small, elite group has the power to rule whose authority generally is based on wealth or power direct democracy ✔✔public policy is established by the people themselves, such as in New England town meetings indirect democracy, or representative democracy ✔✔the people choose a small group to act as their representatives to carry out the policies of government. Article 1 of the Constitution ✔✔defines the legislative bra [Show More]

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