What Is Government

Question 0

Define Public Policy

Answer 0

All those things a government decides to do.

Question 1

Define Government

Answer 1

an institution through which a society makes and enforces its public polices.

Question 2

3 Powers of A Government

Answer 2

Make Enforce Interpret

Question 3

Democracy vs. Dictatorship

Answer 3

Democracy -the people make public polices through their elected representatives

Dictatorship -a single person makes public polices without consulting the people

Question 4

In most nations of the world, all public policy decisions are made in one place. What place?

Answer 4

National Government

Question 5

Unitary Government

Answer 5

A nation that makes all public party decisions in one place

Question 6

Federalism

Answer 6

a nation that makes all public policy decisions in two places.

Question 7

How many counties in Florida? How many cities in Miami? Name 10.

Answer 7

Florida has 67 counties, Miami has 35 cities.
(Miami, Miami beach , coral gables, south Miami, homestead, Hialeah, Key Biscayne, Pincrest, doral, sweet water, sunny isles beach, Indiana creek, adventura, bal harbor, Miami shores.)

Question 8

Public Policy of National Government

Answer 8

National security
Social security
Copyright
Interest rates

Question 9

Public Policy of State Government

Answer 9

State Universities 
Public schools 
Licenses 
Gambling 
Most crimes

Question 10

Public policy of local Government

Answer 10

Police and fire departments
Public transportation
Zoning
Miami international Airport

Question 11

Characteristics of a state

Answer 11

Population
Territory
Sovereignty
Government

Question 12

Largest population

Answer 12

China 
India 
USA 
Indonesia 
Brazil

Question 13

Smallest Population and territory

Answer 13

Vatican City

Question 14

Largest Territory

Answer 14

Russia 
Canada 
China 
USA 
Brazil

Question 15

Sovereignty

Answer 15

The authority of a state to act without consulting another state.

Question 16

of states in the world ( 1914,1946, today)

Answer 16

1914- 62
1946-74
Today -200

Question 17

Origins of the state ( how did states begin ?) (4 theories)

Answer 17

1. The force theory
2. The evolutionary theory
3. The divine rights theory
4. The social contract theory (this theory that prior to modern government, man lived I’m a state of nature)(people living under state of nature, were governed by laws of nature.)

Question 18

Natural rights

Answer 18

life liberty property.

Question 19

Origin of man

Answer 19

1. Biblical explanation

2. Theory of evolution

Question 20

Leviathan author

Answer 20

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)

Question 21

Thomas Hobbles

Answer 21

security/order- monarch

Question 22

Jean Jacques Rosseau

Answer 22

social contract - protection/equality- popular sovereignty.

Question 23

John Locke

Answer 23

two treaties of ppittitipou- protection of property- limited government.

Question 24

Social Contract

Answer 24

The people voluntarily gave up some of their power to relate a state that would protect them and serve them.

Question 25

How contract are broken

Answer 25

If the state does things that the people did not give it the power to do, them the state has broken the contract.