SOCIAL SCIENCES- UNIT 5

1.The Crown: is the part of a constitutinal monarchy represented by the king.

2.Decentralised Government: a system of government in which decision-making is devolved to a local level and is therefore closer to the citizens.

 

3.Motion of no confidence:it is a motion put by the Opposition that censures an aspect of the Government's policy

 

4.Municipality: the most basic administrative body in the Spanish territory. It's made up of one or several settlements.

 

5. Arbitrator: a person chosen to decide a dispute or settle diffences. (In a constitutional monarchy, the king is the arbitrator between governmental institutions.)

 

6.Town Council: it is the organisation that governs each municipality in Spain.

 

 7.Constitutional Monarchy: it is a system of government in which the king is the head of the state but the parliament chooses the government. The government manages the politics of the state.

 

8.Mayor: it is person that governs the town hall.

 

9.Councilors: they are government officials that with the mayor make up the town council. They elect the mayor

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10.Province:it is  an administrative body made up of several municipalities in the Spanish territory.

 

11.Self-government: a system of government in which a community or region has authority to govern itself without the intervetion of any other authority.

 

12.Statute of Autonomy: it is a law describing the institutions, laws and responsabilities for each of the autonomous communities in the Spanish territory.

 

13.Subsidiarity: the services the municipality can provide and they not be provided by the autonomous community.

 

14.Autonomous Community: they form  the Spanish territory with its own government.

 

15.Exclusive authority: it is a local government power over laws related to town planning, housing, monuments, health care and education.

 

16.Share authority:it is the  local government and state power over laws related to transport or labour market

 

. 17.National sovereignty: all Spanish citizens elect the members of the Congress of  Deputies, the Senate, the autonomous parliaments, the town halls and the European Parliament (every four years.)

 

 18.Constitutional Monarchy: it is a system of government in which the king is the head of the state but the parliament chooses the government. The government manages the politics of the state.

 

19.Post-industrial society: it is a society in which the economy has undergone a shift from the production of goods to the provision of services.

20.Well-being: the level of satisfaction of a population  measured by education levels, health care, life expentancy and consumption.

 

21.Life expentancy: the number of years a person or population is expected to live.

 

22.Illiteracy: person who is unable to read and write.

 

23.Extended family: is a big family with grandparents, parents, children...

 

 24.Ministers: they are government officials that with the president, make up the Spanish cabinet.

 

25.Nuclear family: is a contemporary family with parents and children.

 

26.Single parent family: is a family with a mother or father and children.

 

27.Same sex marriages: marriage between to people of the same sex