Government 1

Question 1

Government

Answer 1

The institution through which society makes and enforces its public policies.

Question 2

Purpose of Government

Answer 2

To improve the live of its citizens. To protect the rights of its citizens.

Question 3

Public policies

Answer 3

All those things a government decides to do.

Question 4

Three powers it comes from

Answer 4

God, Force, or People.

Question 5

Anarchy

Answer 5

No government

Question 6

5 forms of Government

Answer 6

Anarchy, dictatorship/monarch, oligarchy, democracy, republic.

Question 7

Dictatorship/Monarchy

Answer 7

Power rests with only one person/state - rule not responsible to the will of the people.

Question 8

Oligarchy

Answer 8

Rule by a small group.

Question 9

Democracy

Answer 9

Rule by the people/ majority.

Question 10

Republic

Answer 10

Rule by the law.

Question 11

Only 2 real forms of Government

Answer 11

Oligarchy and republic

Question 12

Division of powers

Answer 12

Legislative, executive, and judicial.

Question 13

Legislative power:

Answer 13

Make law-Congress

Question 14

Executive power

Answer 14

Enforce law-President

Question 15

Judicial power

Answer 15

Interpret power-Supreme Court

Question 16

Constitution

Answer 16

Fundamental laws est. principles of Government.

Question 17

The State

Answer 17

Dominant political unit in the world.

Question 18

Origins of state theories

Answer 18

Force theory, evolutionary theory, Devine right theory, and social contact theory.

Question 19

Force theory

Answer 19

State was born of force.

Question 20

Evolutionary theory

Answer 20

State came out of a family

Family, clan, tribe, state

Question 21

Devine right theory

Answer 21

God gave a certain group the right to rule.

Question 22

Social contract theory

Answer 22

Free people gave the state as much power as needed to promote the safety and well being of all.

Question 23

Purpose of Government

Answer 23

1. Form a more perfect union (strength in union)
2. Establish justice (the law must be reasonable, fair, and impartial)
3. Insure domestic tranquility (provide law and order and home)
4. Provide for common defense (defends against foreign enemies)
5. Promote the general welfare (provides services)
6. Secure the blessings of liberty (guarantees freedom for the individual)

Question 24

The Preamble

Answer 24

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty, to ourselves and our iniquity. Do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America.

Question 25

Direct democracy

Answer 25

Themselves

Question 25

Indirect democracy

Answer 25

Through representatives

Question 26

Sovereign

Answer 26

Supreme rule

Question 27

Compromise

Answer 27

An arrangement to settle a dispute between two sides

Question 28

Citizen

Answer 28

One who holds certain rights and responsibilities within a state

Question 29

Authoritarian

Answer 29

The state has all the political power.

Question 30

Totalitarian

Answer 30

The state has total power over every aspect of the people's lives.

Question 31

Autocracy

Answer 31

A single person holds power

Question 32

Unitary government

Answer 32

Power lies in the hands of a single central agency

Question 33

Federal government

Answer 33

Power is shared equally by the central and local agencies

Question 34

Confederate government

Answer 34

Power is given to local agencies only

Question 35

Parliamentary government

Answer 35

Executive is chosen by legislative branch

Question 36

Presidential Government

Answer 36

Legislative/executive branches are independent and equal

Question 37

Free enterprise

Answer 37

American economic system is based on five fundamental ideas: private ownership, individual initiative, profit, competition, and supply and demand

Question 38

Characteristics of a state

Answer 38

Population, territory, sovereignty, and central government (politically organized)

Question 39

5 basic elements of a democratic government

Answer 39

1. Equality of all persons (equality of opportunities; equality before the law). 2. Worth of the individual (we are separate and distinct beings). 3. Majority rule/minority rights (the minority can become the majority). 4. Necessity of compromise (there are two sides to everything). 5. Individual freedom (we have rights, but they are not complete).