Unit 1 Review

Question 1

what is it when legalized force is restricted through delegated and enumerated powers?

Answer 1

Limited Government

Question 2

What is a right that is considered to be conferred by natural law?

Answer 2

Natural Right

Question 3

Who believed that the only true and correct form of government was the absolute monarchy?

Answer 3

Thomas Hobbs

Question 4

Who was the enlightenment thinker who created the concept of natural rights which were life. liberty, and prosperity?

Answer 4

John Locke

Question 5

What is the concept that there is an implicit agreement among the member of society to cooperate for social benefits?

Answer 5

Social Contract

Question 6

What is the concept that the people are the ultimate source of authority of their government?

Answer 6

Popular Sovereignty

Question 7

What is the theory of government that emphasizes the participation of citizens for the common good of the community?

Answer 7

Republicanism

Question 8

What is the document that announced the separation of the 13 colonies from Great Britain?

Answer 8

The declaration of independence

Question 9

What is the introductory part of a constitution that usually states the reasons for and intent of the law?

Answer 9

Preamble

Question 10

What is the document that embodies the fundamental laws and principles by which the United States is governed?

Answer 10

U.S Constitution

Question 11

What is the type of democracy where elected persons represent a group of people?

Answer 11

Representative Democracy

Question 12

What is the type of democracy in which citizens participate individually and directly in political decisions and policies that affect their lives?

Answer 12

Participatory Democracy

Question 13

What is the type of democracy in which there is more than one center of power?

Answer 13

Pluralist Democracy

Question 14

What is the type of democracy in which the small minority, consisting of members of the economic elite and policy-planning networks, holds the most power and that this power is independent of democratic elections?

Answer 14

Elite Democracy

Question 15

What is the document that stated that a large republic will help control factions because when more representatives are elected, there will be a greater number of opinions?

Answer 15

Federalist 10

Question 16

What is a number of citizens, whether to majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion or interest, advise to the right of other citizens or to the permanent and aggregate interests in the community?

Answer 16

Factions

Question 17

What document argued that laws cannot be properly executed in a large republic, where it’s hard for central government to represent people properly?

Answer 17

Brutus 1

Question 18

What is a person who advocates or supports a system in government in which several states unite under a central authority?

Answer 18

Federalists