Government Intro Chapter 1

Which of these is NOT a characteristic of a "State"?

• Population

• Territory

• Anarchy

• Sovereignty

• Government

When one person or a small group claims control over an area and forces all within it to submit to their rule, this is known as ......

• the Force Theory

• the Evolutionary Theory

• the Divine Right theory

• the 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 a single person holds unlimited political power

• Democracy

• Autocracy (Dictatorship, Absolute Monarchy)

• 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

Government

• Provides order

• Prevents chaos

• Is an institution through which a society makes and enforces public policies

• All of the above