2025-26 US Government Unit 1 - Part 1

This is the ability to make people do what you want:

• Coersion
• Power
• Rewards
• Tradition

This is when someone has power over you based on tradition or a title

• Formal Authority
• Expertise
• Coersion
• Rewards

This is the ability to convince people to do what you want by talking/logic/emotion

• Formal Authority
• Coersion
• Rewards
• Persuasion

This is getting people to do what you want through physical force

• Formal Authority
• Expertise
• Coersion
• Persuasion

This is the ability to get people to do what you want by exhibiting pertinent knowledge

• Formal Authority
• Expertise
• Coersion
• Persuasion

This is the idea that a ruler gets their power from the people in exchange for benefits

• Mandate of Heaven
• Divine Right of Kings
• Social Contract
• Democratic Right

What is not a characteristic of a State?

• Sovereignty
• Population
• Territory
• Currency

This book outlining the basic ideas of the social contract by Thomas Hobbes is called:

• The Social Contract
• The Leviathan
• The Second Treatise on Government
• The Spirit of Laws

This political ideology believes in Equality over Freedom and Freedom over Order

• Liberal
• Communitarian
• Libertarian
• Conservative

This political ideology believes in Equality over Freedom and Order over Freedom

• Liberal
• Communitarian
• Libertarian
• Conservative