Unit 1 Introduction to Government

God created the state and that God had given those of royal birth the right to rule.

• Force Theory

• Evolutionary Theory

• Divine Right Theory

• Social Contract Theory

One person or a small group claimed control over an area and forced all within to submit to that person’s or group’s rule

• Force Theory

• Evolutionary Theory

• Divine Right Theory

• Social Contract Theory

Claims the state developed naturally out of the earliest group unit, the family

• Force Theory

• Divine Right Theory

• Evolutionary Theory

• Social Contract Theory

People voluntarily came together and created the state.

• Social Contract Theory

• Evolutionary Theory

• Divine Right Theory

• Chaos Theory

A government in which all the powers are held by a central agency which then gives out the remainder of the powers to local government for its own convenience

• Parliamentary

• Unitary

• Presidential

• Confederation

A government in which the power to rule is held by a small, usually self-appointed elite group

• Democracy

• Autocracy

• Oligarchy

• Parliamentary

A government in which the president is directly elected by the people

• Parliamentary

• Presidential

• Unitary

• Confederation

A government in which a single person holds unlimited political power

• Democracy

• Autocracy

• Oligarchy

• Paliamentary

The supreme political authority rest with the people and the citizens themselves

• Democracy

• Autocracy

• Oligarchy

• Confederation

An alliance of independent states

• Presidential

• Unitary

• Presidential

• Confederation