Government

Question 1

What is the purpose of government?

Answer 1

Laid out in the Declaration of Independence
To protect the rights of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

Question 2

What is constitutional governmnet?

Answer 2

A government where the rulers are limited by a constitution

Government of unlimited power is an autocratic or dictatorial government

Question 3

What are 5 important characteristics of consitutional governmnet?

Answer 3

• Lists basic rights of citizens to life, liberty and property
• Establishes responsibilities of government to protect those rights
• Places limits of how people in government use their powers
• Establishes the principle of private domain
• Can only be changed with wide spread consent of citizens and according to certain set procedures

Question 4

What is national government?

Answer 4

A government that manages an entire country
* The organization having central political authority in a nation; the representative unit of political organization

Question 5

What is higher law?

Answer 5

The superiority of one set of laws over another
* The Constitution is a higher law than any federal or state law
In natural rights philosophy, natural law and divine law are a higher law than laws made by humans

Question 6

what is a monarchy?

Answer 6

A head of state (king, queen, emperor) possessing supreme or ultimate power

Question 7

What is diplomacy?

Answer 7

The practice of caring on formal relationships with governments of other countries

Question 8

What is legislative supremacy?

Answer 8

A system of government in which the legislative branch has unlimited power

Question 9

What is a political party?

Answer 9

Any organization that seeks to achieve political power by electing members to public office so that their political philosophies can be reflected in public policies