American Government - Chapter 1

An institution through which leaders exercise power to make and enforce laws affecting the people under its control?

• Government
• Economics
• Socialism
• Oregon

A group of people united by bonds of race, language, custom, tradition, and sometimes religion? 

• Nation
• State
• Government
• Economics

A political community that occupies a definite territory and has an organized government?

• State
• Nation
• Government
• Anarchy

A political community that occupies a definite territory and has an organized government?

• Country
• anarchy
• nation
• government

The supreme and absolute authority within territorial boundaries?

• Sovereignty
• State
• Country
• Local

A government that gives all key powers to the national or central government?

• Unitary
• Federal
• Constitution
• Confederacy

A loose union of independent states?

• Confederacy
• Nation-State
• Unitary
• Local

A government that divides the powers of government between the national government and state or provincial governments?

• Federal System
• Confederacy
• Unitary System
• Constitution

A plan that provides the rules for government?

• Constitution
• Magna Carta
• Declaration of Independence
• Natural Law 

A government in which a constitution has authority to place clearly recognized limits on the powers of those who govern?

• Constitutional Government
• Democracy
• Socialism
• State