Chapter 1

Question 1

The institution through which a society makes and enforces its pubic policies.

Answer 1

Government

Question 2

The power to make laws and to frame public policies.

Answer 2

Legislative Power

Question 3

All of those things a government decides to do.

Answer 3

Public Policies

Question 3

The power to execute, enforce, and administer laws.

Answer 3

Executive Power

Question 4

The power to interpret laws, to determine their meaning, and to settle disputes that arise within the society.

Answer 4

Judicial Power

Question 5

Form of government where the power to rule is held by a single person or a small group.

Answer 5

Dictatorship

Question 6

The body of fundamental laws setting out the principles, structures, and processes of a government.

Answer 6

Constitution

Question 7

A body of people, living in a defined territory, organized politically, and with the power to make and enforce law without the consent of any higher authority.

Answer 7

State

Question 8

Form of government where the power to rule is held by the people.

Answer 8

Democracy

Question 9

Form of a dictatorship where the power to rule rests with a single person.

Answer 9

Autocracy

Question 10

Form of a dictatorship where the power to rule rests with a small, usually self-appointed elite group.

Answer 10

Oligarchy

Question 11

All powers held by the government belong to a single, central agency.

Answer 11

Unitary Government

Question 12

Powers of the government are divided between a central government and several local governments.

Answer 12

Federal Government

Question 13

Describes how government powers are divided based on geographic location.

Answer 13

Division of Powers

Question 14

An alliance of independent states

Answer 14

Confederate Government

Question 15

Features a separation of powers between the executive and the legislative branches of the government. The two branches are independent of one another and coequal.

Answer 15

Presidential Government

Question 16

Features the executive branch made up of the prime minister and that official’s cabinet. The prime minister and cabinet members are all members of the legislative branch

Answer 16

Parliamentary Government

Question 17

In a democracy, the majority of the people will be right more often than they will be wrong, and will be right more often than will any one person or small group.

Answer 17

Majority Rule

Question 18

Process of blending and adjusting competing views and interests.

Answer 18

Compromise

Question 19

One who holds both rights and responsibilities in a state.

Answer 19

Citizen

Question 20

An economic system characterized by the private ownership of capital goods; investments made by private decision, not by government directive; and success or failure determined by competition in the marketplace.

Answer 20

Free Enterprise System

Question 21

Having supreme and absolute power within its own territory and can decide its own foreign and domestic policies.

Answer 21

Sovereignty