Chapter 1 Section 1

Question 1

Power

Answer 1

Government authority and ability to get things done.

Question 2

Policy

Answer 2

Decision made by government in pursuit of a goal

Question 3

State

Answer 3

Political unit with power to make and enforce laws over groups of people living in a territory

Question 4

Sovereignty

Answer 4

Supreme power to act within its territory and control its external affairs. Independence from other states and freedom to establish form of government

Question 5

Politics

Answer 5

Process which government makes and carries out decisions by debating issues and policies

Question 6

Legitimacy

Answer 6

Rulers are seen as right and proper by important segments of a nation’s population

Question 7

Divine right of kings

Answer 7

King answer only to God not to the people. Power from God

Question 8

Social contract theory

Answer 8

Holds that the first government formed as a result of people agreeing among themselves to submit to the Authority of a state

Question 9

Government

Answer 9

Made of formal institutions and processes which decisions are made for a group of people. People powers policies