The document defines key political terms like:
- Constitution: The organization of offices in a state that determines sovereign authority and the goals of the association. Laws are rules for how magistrates exercise power.
- Forms of government: Includes definitions of terms like anarchy, commonwealth, communism, confederacy, constitutional democracy, constitutional monarchy, democracy, dictatorship, federal republic, monarchy, oligarchy, parliamentary democracy, republic, socialism, sultanate, theocracy, and totalitarian.