GEOGRAPHY GLOSSARY!!!!!!!!
   
    UNIT FIVE

• National sovereignty: It guarantees that all Spanish citizens elect the members of the following bodies of government every four years.
• Constitutional Monarchy: A system of government in which the king is the head of state but the parliament chooses the government.
• The Crown: The part of a constitutional monarchy represented by the king.
• Arbitrator: A person chosen to decide a dispute or settle differences.
• 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: If the Cortes Generales do not agree with the government's politics, they can pass it to force the president to resign.
• Ministers: Government officials that make up the Spanish cabinet.
• Municipality: The most basic administrative body in the Spanish territory.
• Town Council: The organisation taht governs each municipality in Spain.
• Mayor: The chairman and civic head of a municipal corporation in many countries.
• Councilors: Government officials that make up the town council.
• Province: A territory governed as a unit of a country or empire.
• Self-government: The government of a country, nation, etc, by its own people.
• Statute of Autonomy: A law describing the institutions, laws and responsabilities for each of the autonomous communities in the Spanish territory.
• Subsidiarity: The principle of devolving decisions to the lowest practical level.
• Autonomous Community: One of 17 regions that form part of the Spanish territory with its own devolved government.
• Exclusive authority: The local government has it over laws related to town planning, housing, monuments, helath care and education.
• Share authority: The local government and the state has it over laws related to transport or the labour market.
• Post-industrial society: A society in which the economy has undergone a shift from the production of goods to the provision of services.
• Well-being: The level of satisfaction of a population as measured by education levels, health care, live expectancy and consumption.
• Life expectancy: The numbers of years a person or population is expected to live.
• Extended family: Grandparents, parents and children.
• Nuclear family: Parents and children.
• Single parent family: A father or a mother and children.
• Same sex marriages: Two mans or two womans.