GLOSSARY UNIT 5 (SOCIAL SCIENCE)

• NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY= Sovereignty is the power of a state to do everything necessary to govern itself, such as making, executing, and applying laws; imposing and collecting taxes; making war and peace; and forming treaties or engaging in commerce with foreign nations

• CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY =  a monarchy governed according to a constitution that limits and defines the powers of the sovereign. Also called: limited monarchy

• THE CROWN= the part of a constitutional monarchy represented by the king

• ARBITRATOR=  A private extraordinary judge chosen by the parties who have a matter in dispute, invested with power to decide the same. Arbitrators are so called because they have generally an arbitrary power, there being in common no appeal from their sentences, which are called awards

• DECENTRALISED GOVERNMENT= a system of government in which decision- making is devolved to a local level and is therefore closer to the citizens

• MOTION OF NO CONFIDENCE= is primarily a statement or vote which states that a person in a superior position - be it government, managerial, etc. - is no longer deemed fit to hold that position. This may be based on said person falling short in some respect, failing to carry out obligations, or making choices that other members feel are detrimental

• MINISTERS= government officials that, together with the president, make up the spanish cabinet

• MUNICIPALITY= is also used to mean the governing body of a municipality.A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision

• TOWN COUNCIL= is a democratically elected form of government for small municipalities or civil parishes. A council may serve as both the representative and executive branch.

• MAYOR=  is the highest-ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city.

• COUNCILORS=  is a member of alocal government council, such as a city council

• PROVINCE=  is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state

• SELF-GOVERNMENT=  is an abstract concept that applies to several scales of organization

• STATUTE OF AUTONOMY=  is a law hierarchically located under the constitution of a country, and over any other form of legislation (including organic laws)

• SUBSIDIARITY= is an organising principle of decentralisation, stating that a matter ought to be handled by the smallest, lowest, or least centralised authority capable of addressing that matter effectively

• AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY=  is a first-level political and administrative division of Spain created in accordance with the Spanish constitution of 1978, with the aim of guaranteeing the autonomy of the nationalities and regions that integrate the Spanish nation

• EXCLUSIVE AUTHORITY= is a government's assertion of its legitimate authority over a certain territory, part of which another government controls with stable, de facto sovereignty

• SHARE AUTHORITY= the local govenrment and the state over laws related to the transport or the labour market

• POST- INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY= a society in wich the economy has undergone a shift from the production of goods to the provision of services

• WELL- BEING= The term is used in a wide range of contexts, including the fields of international development, healthcare, and politics

• LIFE EXPECTANCY=  is the expected (in the statistical sense) number of years of life remaining at a given age

• ILLITERACY= is the inability to read and write one's own name and further for knowledge and interest, write coherently, and think critically about the written word

• EXTENDED FAMILY= defines a family that extends beyond the nuclear family, consisting of grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins all living nearby or in the same household

• NUCLEAR FAMILY=  is a term used to define a family group consisting of a pair of adults and their children. This is in contrast to a single-parent family, to the larger extended family, and to a family with more than two parents

• SINGLE PARENT FAMILY= a person who has a dependent child or dependent children and who is widowed, divorced, or unmarried

• SAME SEX MARRIAGES=  a law permitting same-sex marriage