Government and Political Theories

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Definition of a state.

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A political community that occupies a definite territory and has an organized government with the power to make and enforce laws without approval from a higher authority.

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Definition of a nation.

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Any sizable group of people who are united by common bonds of race, language, custom, tradition, and sometimes religion.

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Definition of sovereignty.

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The state has supreme and absolute authority within its territorial boundaries.

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The Evolutionary Theory of government.

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The state evolved from the primitive family.

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The Social Contract Theory.

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The theory that states by contract, people surrendered to the state the power needed to maintain order and for protection of their natural rights.

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Thomas Hobbes' description of life in the state of nature.

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Cruel, brutish, and short.

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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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The four purposes of government.

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Maintain social order, Provide public services, Provide national security and common defense, Provide and control an economic system.

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What the US must do to maintain national security in today's world.

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Provide protection, while still continuing trade and diplomatic relations with other nations.

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The main problem when it comes to society and the economy.

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Material scarcity.