Gov: Chapter 1 Test

Question 1

Which is an example of a direct democracy?

Answer 1

Ancient Greece

Question 2

Which is an example of an indirect democracy?

Answer 2

United States of America

Question 3

In congress, which has more members and why:

Answer 3

House of Representatives since it is based on population, while Senators is based on simply the number of states times 2. (?)

Question 4

the institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies.

Answer 4

Government

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Judicial power

Question 6

belief that God grants authority to the goverment.

Answer 6

Divine right of kings

Question 7

all of those things a government decides to do. COver matters such as taxation, defense, education, crime, and healthcare, transportation, environment

Answer 7

Public policies

Question 8

process of blending and adjusting competing views and interests; an adjustment of opposing principles or systems by modifying some aspects of each in order to find the position most acceptable to the majority.

Answer 8

Compromise

Question 9

Major enlightenment figure that influenced the American constitution. Believed in “common law”- the idea that legal decisions should be made on the basis of similar decisions made in the past

Answer 9

William Blackstone

Question 10

Greek philosopher “man is by nature a political animal”

Answer 10

Aristotle

Question 11

a form of goverment in which the power to rule is held by a small, usually self-appointed elite.

Answer 11

Oligarchy

Question 12

form of government in which the executive branch is made up of the prime minister, or premier and that official’s cabinet.

Answer 12

Parliamentary Government

Question 13

Alliance of independent states; a joining of several groups for a common purpose

Answer 13

Confederation

Question 14

an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods; investments that are determined by private decision rather than by state control and determined in a free market.

Answer 14

Free enterprise system

Question 15

state of nature” & “the war of every man against every man”& without government “there would be continual fear and danger of violent death and the life of man would be poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”- explained why government is necessary

Answer 15

Thomas Hobbes

Question 16

utmost authority in decision making and in maintaining order of a state.

Answer 16

Sovereignty

Question 17

one who holds both rights and responsibilities in a state; a member of a state or nation who owes allegiance to it by birth or naturalization and is entitled to full civil rights.

Answer 17

Citizen