1st 9 weeks exam GOV.

What branch of the national government makes laws?

• legislative

• executive

• judicial

• state

What is the name for a politically organized group of people living in a defined territory who have the power to make their own laws?

• government
• public policies
• state
• judiciary

What branch of the national government enforces laws?

• judicial
• state
• legislative
• executive

An alliance of independent states is called what?

• federal

• unitary

• confederacy

• oligarchy

This theory for the origin of the state proposes that people were made to submit when one person or group of people took control.

• evolutionary
• force
• social contract
• divine right

In this classification of government, all power is held by a single central agency.

• federal
• parliamentary
• unitary
• confederate

In this classification of government, power is held by a small group of self-appointed leaders.

• oligarchy

• democracy
• autocracy
• unitary

In this form of government, the people are the source of political power.

• dictatorship
• federal
• democracy
• confederate

What branch of the national government has the power to interpret the law?

• executive
• legislative
• state
• judicial

Under this theory of the state, it is proposed that the state developed naturally from leading families.

• evolutionary
• social contract
• force
• divine righta