Gov Test 1 Flashcards
What ancient Greek scholar was one of the first students of government
Aristotle
What are the 4 features of all the states in today’s world
Population
Territory
Sovereignty
Government
What system of government gives all key powers to the national government
Unitary
What is a loose union of independent states
Confederacy
What is the effort to control or influence the conduct of government called
Politics
Any system of government in which rule is by the people is called_____
Democracy
What is the form of democracy we have in the US
Representitive
What man’s writing influenced the American revolutionaries
Locke
What system divides the power between the state and national governements
Federal
What is a plan that provides the rules for governemnt
Constitution
What is any system of government in which a small group holds power
Oligarchy
What are the 4 main purposes of government
Maintaining social order
Providing public service
Providing national security
Making economic decisions
What are the 4 theories of how government began
Social contracct
Divine Right
Force
Evolution
What man wrote the Two Treatises of Government which influnced the writer of our constitution
Locke
Signed in 1620 by the Pilgrims, this colonial plan for self-rule is called ______
Mayflower Compact
The first legislature in what became the US was _____
General Assembly
Why was the Magna Carta important
Was the first document to put into writing the principles that the king and his government were not above the law.
What man wrote the original draft of the Declaration of Indepence
Thomas Jefferson
How is the Declaration of Independence divided up
Preamble, Natural Rights, List of Grievances, Declaration
Compare Locke and Hobbes
Hobbes: everyone is equal. We may have differences but all equal; life of a man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short, and we can not revolt; autocracy
Locke: We are all equal and independent. We all have our own freedom to do things. God gives reasons to make advantages, and we can revolt if government isn’t doing its job; democracy
Explain how Locke’s ideas are in the Declaration of Independence
All individuals are equal in the sense that they have all been born with certain “inalienably natural rights”. Also “life, liberty, and property”
Who said “Life of man is nasty, brutish, and short”
Hobbes
Who said “Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains”
Rousseau
Who said “Power should be a check to power”
montesquieu
Who said “Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions”
Locke
