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Unit 2- up to Human Rights

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  • Name the three branches of power.
    Legislative, Executive, Judicial
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  • What is the legislative branch responsible for?
    Making the laws
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  • Who runs the executive branch of power in Greece?
    The prime minister and the president
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  • Who runs the legislative branch of power in the USA?
    the Congress
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  • What is the relationship between the legislative and the executive branch of power in the USA?
    The President is not a member of the Congress
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  • What are the two different types of monarchies?
    Absolute and Constitutional
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  • What is the Constitution?
    a book of laws
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  • What is the difference between a dictatorship and a junta?
    Dictatorship= only one dictator/ Junta= a military group of people in power
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  • What is an oligarchy?
    A governmental system where a few powerful people rule
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  • When was the Declaration of Human rights put together and by what organization?
    United Nations/ 1948
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  • What do we mean when we say that human rights are interdependent?
    Usually when one rights is violated, more rights are affected
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  • What was the Magna Carta?
    document signed by King John with a list of promises that would make England a safe and fair place to live
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  • Why was the United Nations founded?
    To prevent wars like the Second World War
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