gov chapter 1 quiz

Question 1

organization established to exercise authority over a group of people

Answer 1

government

Question 2

who gets what when and how

Answer 2

politics

Question 3

power that citizens view as legitimate or right

Answer 3

authority

Question 4

3 levels of authors

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local (cities), state, federal

Question 5

the right to make decisions or an action without being overuled

Answer 5

Sovereignty

Question 6

the people in a country have the power to make the decisions without being overruled the government doesn’t rule over the people

Answer 6

popular sovereignty

Question 7

the people that own the factories and the means of production are owned privately, hospitals, torcheys

Answer 7

capitalism

Question 8

public ownership, the gov runs everything and divides the results of production equally

Answer 8

socialism

Question 9

kind of capitalism, profit make as much as you want free to set up business, prices determined by market forces, private ownership of business

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free market

Question 10

progressive taxes to reduce inequality, gov regulation, taxes on demerit goods such as cigarettes, govt provision of public goods, kind of like socialism

Answer 10

govt intervention

Question 11

mixture of free market and govt intervention

Answer 11

mixed economy (US)

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taking the free market and extending it as far as it can possibly go, allow them to do, no govt intervention

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laissez-faire

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kind of like a mixed economy, capitalism with govt regulations, high emphasis on equality, private ownership, with very high taxes to provide services to make things equal,

Answer 13

social democracy

Question 14

any gov where the gov has authority over the ppl no popular sovereignty ie. communism theocracy, monarchy, and various other forms of dictatorships, autocracy,

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authoritarian gov

Question 15

extreme form of authoritarian gov, entire life is run by the gov, ppl have no say,

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Totalitarianism

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one person in charge, monarchy, junta, dictatorship

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autocracy

Question 17

few people have control of the government, ancient Sparta

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oligarchy

Question 18

the gov or the god would have total control Iran, elected president, but the religious leaders can overrule it

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theocracy

Question 19

glorifies the state over everything else, individual rights do not matter only the nation matters, everything in ur life is controlled by the gov, comes from old Italy

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Facism

Question 20

no government, but someone gains power and it leads to dictatorship, nonauthoritatianian system

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anarchy

Question 21

ppl are in charge popular sovereignty ppl can vote, choose leaders make laws,

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democracy

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ppl vote on every single law

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direct democracy

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elect congressmen to go vote for the laws

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indirect democracy

Question 24

rule by law, but has democratic ideas that protect certain things by law

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republic

Question 25

the law is king

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lex rex

Question 26

instead of having a king be over the ppl, the king and the ppl r equal, the king promises to protect the rights of the people, give authority to gov for protection

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social contract theory

Question 27

1st characteristic in the American democratic republic

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limited government- didn’t have a lot of power, especially after being ruled by a king

Question 28

2nd characteristic in the American democratic republic

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individual liberty- personal freedoms and rights vs. the common good

Question 29

3rd characteristic in the American democratic republic

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equality- everyone treated the same, but at the time it meant they don’t favor anyone equality vs equity

Question 30

4th characteristic in the American democratic republic

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majority/minority- majority wins, but they don’t have the right to suppress the minority, the minority can become the majority

Question 31

5th characteristic in the American democratic republic

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compromise- solve the problem in a way that benefits the greatest number of people

Question 32

6th characteristic in the American democratic republic

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ideology- left liberal right conservative, the political spectrum

Question 33

set of political beliefs

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ideology