Foundations of Government

Which term is the area in which a state's rule applies?

• property
• liberty
• territory
• sovereignty

What are rights that human beings share (life, liberty, and property)?

• sovereignty
• natural rights
• territory
• tabula rasa

What is the ability to rule absolutely within a territory?

• government
• territory
• ruler
• sovereignty

What means that laws are fair, they're enforced, and nobody is above the law?

• rule of law
• tabula rasa
• life
• state of nature

The group of people who are the members of a state.

• sovereignty
• government
• population
• legitimacy

Which is not a role of the government?

• makes laws
• protects the state
• keeps order
• take property

Population, territory, sovereignty, and government are features of 

• a government
• a state
• a territory
• a population

A social contract is an agreement between

• people and their children
• government and other officials
• government and people
• people and their bosses

What are life, liberty, and property?

• state of nature
• natural rights
• rights of the minority
• consent of the governed

Explain the difference between a unitary system of government and a federal system of government.

• The unitary system of government gives all the power to the central government and the federal government divides power between national and state governments.
• The unitary system of government is no longer practiced in world governments. Every country has a federal system of government.
• The unitary system of government divides the power between the national government and the state/provincial governments and the federal system gives all power to the central government.
• The federal government system is only practiced in the United States of America.