UNIT I

Question 1

Features of a State

Answer 1

population, territory, sovereignty, government

Question 2

Types of Government

Answer 2

autocracy, oligarchy, democracy

Question 3

Direct Democracy

Answer 3

every citizen is involved in every decision made by government

Question 4

Representative Democracy

Answer 4

the people elect reps, elected representatives make laws

Question 5

another word for representative democracy

Answer 5

republic

Question 6

Economic Systems

Answer 6

the method used by a society to produce and distribute goods and services

Question 7

Free Enterprise

what kind of economy

Answer 7

people are free to buy, sell, and produce whatever they want

Question 8

Command Economy

what kind of economy

Answer 8

central government determines production, investment, prices, and incomes

Question 9

Sovereignty

state has complete power to:

Answer 9

make laws, make foreign policy, determine actions

Question 10

Democracy means 5 things:

Answer 10

individual liberty/equal opportunity, majority rule with minority rights, free elections, competing political parties

Question 11

Federal System

Answer 11

divides powers between national and local government

Question 12

Constitutions establish

Answer 12

ideals that the people believe in and share

Question 13

___________________ have supreme law of the land

Answer 13

constitutions

Question 14

Constitutions set up

Answer 14

government and its powers

Question 15

politics

Answer 15

effort to control or influence the conduct and policies of government

Question 16

john locke

Answer 16

English philosopher who advocated for ideas of social contract and natural rights

Question 17

Locke’s natural rights

Answer 17

life, liberty, and property

Question 18

Locke’s social contract theory

Answer 18

government powers are derived from the consent of the governed and in which the government serves the people

Question 19

constitutions

definition

Answer 19

a plan for setting forth rules of government