Forms and Systems of Gov

1.  In an ancient kingdom, the people were tired of being treated badly by their king. The people of each village got together and chose chiefs to represent them and bring their complaints to the king. What kind of government did the villagers demonstrate by their actions? (3.1)

• a.  autocracy
• a.  direct democracy
• a.  monarchy
• a.  representative democracy/republic

1.  What do an autocracy, absolute monarchy, and oligarchy have in common? (3.1)

• a.  They are all elected by the people
• a.  Power is shared amongst the government and the states
• a.  The people hold the power
• a.  A single leader or a small group control the government

1.  What is the difference between an absolute monarchy and a constitutional monarchy? (3.1)

• a.  In a constitutional monarchy, the people vote on the king or queen.
• a.  In a constitutional monarchy, the king or queen are mostly ceremonial as they don’t really hold any power
• a.  In an absolute monarchy, the king writes the constitution not the people
• a.  A constitutional monarchy has no king or queen

1.  In which form of government do the citizens make the decisions on all policies for the government? (3.1)

• a.  representative democracy
• a.  constitutional monarchy 
• a.  direct democracy
• a.  Oligarchy

1.  What modern political action could be influenced by the statement in a news paper. The newspaper displays the color red, a star hammer and sickle with the title "workers of the world unite!"? (3.1)

• A communist country invades a democratic country
• a.  A representative democracy amends its constitution
• a.  A queen speaks before Parliament to officially open Parliament
• a.  A president order the invasion of a neighboring country

1.  How is a Parliamentary System of government different from a Presidential System? (3.2)

• a.  In a Parliamentary system the legislative branch chooses the executive not the people
• a.  In a Presidential system the president or executive is chosen by the legislative branch
• a.  In a Parliamentary System, the Parliament is only one house, not two
• a.  The Parliamentary System gives more power to the people to influence laws

1.  Which of the following describes a Unitary System of government? (3.2)

• a.  a country in which the central government holds all the power
• a.  a federal arrangement of central government and states
• a.  the United States under the Articles of Confederation
• a.  independent legislatures in several provinces

What long term impact does this headline reflect? "FIRST FEMALE PRIME MINISTER ELECTED!" (19th)

• a.  protection of equal property rights
• a.  expansion of the right to privacy
• a.  protection of due process rights
• a.  expansion of the right to vote

1.  Why did the original U.S. government have a confederal form of government? (3.2)

• a.  the national government wanted to share powers with the states governments
• a.  the states did not want to give too much power to the central government
• a.  they didn’t trust the state governments
• a.     the British forced them to

Federal system, power is_________ while in a Unitary system the power ________

• shared,power delegated from the top
• delegated from the bottom, shared
• delegated from the top and the bottom
• shared, unknown