constitution quiz

Question 1

State

Answer 1

defined body of people living in a defined territory

Question 2

nation

Answer 2

ethnic term referring to a large group of people

Question 3

dictatorship

Answer 3

someone who cannot be held responsible to the will of the people

Question 4

democracy

Answer 4

The supreme authority rests with people

Question 5

how does the Constitution help to make it possible for government carry out its public policies

Answer 5

each state follows the Constitution and so each day is politically organized

Question 6

force theory

Answer 6

when one person or small group rules and everyone must follow

Question 7

evolutionary theory

Answer 7

A family that rule the country and is passed down

Question 8

Divine right theory

Answer 8

Believe that God created the state and is given the Royal to rule

Question 9

social contract theory

Answer 9

freedom that is a state of nature or no government exists

Question 10

Federal government

Answer 10

The power is divided between a central and a regional Government

Question 11

how does a federal government differ from the Confederate state

Answer 11

oh equal partners, most powerful belongs to the regional government

Question 12

executive and legislative branches

Answer 12

executive is chosen by legislative

Question 13

Thomas Hobbes View of human nature

Answer 13

Life is a war of all against all life is a state of nature is nasty

Question 14

Thomas Hobbes view of government

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absolute monarch

Question 15

John Locke view of human nature

Answer 15

The mind is a blank slate at birth

Question 16

John Locke do you have government

Answer 16

humans could rationally agree on things

Question 17

Thomas Hobbes

Answer 17

wrote leviathan

Question 18

John Locke

Answer 18

wrote two treaties of government

Question 19

sovereign

Answer 19

having supreme power with in its own territory

Question 20

demagogue

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leader who appeals to popular desires and prejudice rather than using rational argument

Question 21

populist

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appeals to desires of common person and is often anti-establishment

Question 22

statesman

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skilled experienced political leader

Question 23

legislative

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makes the laws, Congress

Question 24

executive

Answer 24

forces laws, President

Question 25

judicial

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interprets laws, the court system

Question 26

bureaucracy

Answer 26

hopes the president enforce the laws

Question 27

democracy

Answer 27

Government by the people

Question 28

Direct democracy

Answer 28

people vote on public-policy directly

Question 29

Republic

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people vote for leaders that then make the decisions

Question 30

unitary

Answer 30

Central government, states, people

Question 31

confederal

Answer 31

States, central government and people

Question 32

Federal

Answer 32

Central government and state, people

Question 33

presidential government

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separate and independent, choosing and differently, relative equals, no subject to direct control of other

Question 34

parliamentary government

Answer 34

prime minister is a part of legislature, prime minister is leader of majority, prime minister is subject to direct control, prime minister can be removed from office

Question 35

Government

Answer 35

institution through which a society makes enforce its public policies