GOVT: Unit 1Review

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Which form of democracy is the most basic in which all the people govern themselves?

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Direct democracy

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A political community in which the people control the government through elected political officials, and give them the responsibility and power to make laws and conduct government is called -

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Representative democracy

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Greek city-states were self-governing units whose small populations relied on which type of government?

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Direct democracy

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Roman territory was spread out, and much larger than Greece. They relied on which type of government?

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Indirect democracy (representative democracy)

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Which principle states that those who govern and those that are governed must obey the law and are subject to the same laws?

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Rule of law

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Which early charter set limits on the king's power and granted civil rights to English nobles and over time to all "freedmen?"

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Magna Carta

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Which early English document was a list of demands that included basic rights and established the concept of rule of law?

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English Petition of Rights

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Which document from 1689 would prevent members of Parliament from being punished for signing petitions or prevent an army from being created during peacetime?

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English Bill of Rights

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Montesquieu wrote about which principle that was later adopted into early American documents?

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Separation of powers

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John Locke built upon the works of Thomas Hobbes and believed that a ruler gains authority through -

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the consent of the governed