Foundations of Government

Question 1

Three main components governments consist of

Answer 1

People, Powers, Policies

Question 2

What is government made up of?

Answer 2

Institutions and Processes

Question 3

Any decision made by government in pursuit of a specific goal; can come in the form of laws, govt program, or sets of govt actions

Answer 3

Policy

Question 4

Refers to the government’s authority and ability to get things done

Answer 4

Power

Question 5

Is made up of the formal institutions and processes by which decisions are made for a group of people

Answer 5

Government

Question 6

What are the three powers of government

Answer 6

Executive, judicial, and legislative

Question 7

Two types of people in government

Answer 7

elected officials and public servants

Question 8

Political unit with the power to make and enforce laws over a group of people living within a clearly defined territory

Answer 8

State

Question 9

What are the four traits of a state?

Answer 9

Population, territory, government, and sovereignty

Question 10

Has fewer than 12000 people and is one of the world’s smallest states

Answer 10

Tuvalu

Question 11

You must have _________ to have a state

Answer 11

People

Question 12

States must have a clearly defined and recognized ___________

Answer 12

Border

Question 13

The world’s chief body for international cooperation

Answer 13

United Nations

Question 14

How does a state limit the sovereign power of their governments?

Answer 14

Constitution

Question 15

Includes independence from other states as well as the freedom to establish a form of government; the supreme power to act within their territory and to control its external affair

Answer 15

Sovereignty

Question 16

Services that are available to everyone and that cannot be denied are _________?

Answer 16

Public goods

Question 17

What are the five functions served by the government?

Answer 17

Ensure national security, maintain order, resolve conflict, Provide services, and provide for the public good

Question 18

Another name for the public good; The needs and interests of the people as a whole

Answer 18

General Welfare

Question 19

Process by which govt makes and carries out decisions

Answer 19

Politics

Question 20

a system of rules derived from the natural world

Answer 20

natural law

Question 21

holds that the first govts formed as a result of people agreeing among themselves to submit to the authority of a state

Answer 21

Social Contract theory

Question 22

any form of govt in which a single individual controls most governing decisions

Answer 22

autocracy

Question 23

Ruled by a king or queen who belong to a royal family from which power is inherited

Answer 23

Monarchy

Question 24

Type of monarchy in which the govt may coexist with other forms of govt

Answer 24

Constitutional monarchy

Question 25

Type of government in which a single person or group controls absolute authority and makes all decisions

Answer 25

Dictatorship

Question 26

dictator holds ultimate authority; no formal or informal limits on govt

Answer 26

totalitarian regime

Question 27

Government where a small group of people makes govt decisions for their own benifit

Answer 27

Oligarchy/aristocracy

Question 28

Government in which decisions are made based of a particular religion or religious doctrine

Answer 28

Theocracy

Question 29

Who believed that in order to protect natural rights from govt interference, govt power had to be limited?

Answer 29

Locke

Question 30

Who in a monarchy was said to give the King/Queen power?

Answer 30

God

Question 31

sovereignty, or ultimate authority, rests in a single, national govt; local levels of govt may be active and important agencies of rule, but the national govt has ultimate authority

Answer 31

Unitary system

Question 32

divides power over people and territory between a national govt and smaller, regional levels of govts

Answer 32

federal system

Question 33

Two levels of which the US federal system consists

Answer 33

Overarching national govt and 50 state govt

Question 34

Indirect form of democracy in which people vote for representatives in govt

Answer 34

Representative Democracy

Question 35

Type of govt that works best in small communities

Answer 35

Direct Democracy

Question 36

System after which many of the world's govts are molded in which a leader is placed into power by vote of the people for a limited term of office

Answer 36

Presidential System

Question 37

May be commander-in-chief of the armed forces, but can't declare war in presidential system

Answer 37

President

Question 38

Declares war in a presidential system

Answer 38

Congress

Question 39

In a parliamentary system _________ and ___________are combined

Answer 39

Executive and legislative branches

Question 40

An elected system of legislature in the parliamentary system that chooses the prime minister

Answer 40

Parliament

Question 41

The prime minister must select his cabinet from the __________

Answer 41

Majority party

Question 42

Member of parliament and leader of the majority party

Answer 42

Prime minister

Question 43

Statement or vote stating that a person in a high seat of power is deemed unfit to continue holding that position

Answer 43

Vote of no confidence

Question 44

Who supported the idea of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness

Answer 44

Rousseau