Civics and Government Final Exam Study Guide

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An institution through which a state maintains social order, provides public services, and enforces binding decisions on citizens is known as:

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government

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Any sizable group of people united by bonds of race, language, custom, tradition and sometimes religion is known as: _________.

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nation

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What is sovereignty?

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The state has supreme and absolute authority within its territorial boundaries

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What did Locke feel people were entitled to?

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Life, Liberty and Property

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Who used Locke’s ideas to write the Declaration of Independence?

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Thomas Jefferson

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What are the four purposes of government?

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Maintain social order, provide public services, provide and maintain an economic system, provide national security.

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What are the 3 purposes of a constitution?

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Sets ideals, provides for the basic structure of government, provides supreme law of the land.

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The effort to control or influence the conduct and policies of government is known as:

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politics

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Autocracy

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A system of government where the power is in the hands of a single individual or rule by one

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Oligarchy

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A system of government where a small group holds the power or rule by the few