Final - AG Semester 1A

Government where the ruler tries to reshape the people or the society to conform to an idea or plan:

• totalitarian

• socialism

• democratic

• representative

What lists the Constitution’s six goals & states that people of the U.S. are the authority of the Constitution?

• the Bill of Rights

• the Preamble

• the first seven Articles

• the First Amendment

Sovereignty is best defined as:

• state’s right to act independently

• monarchial government

• the first seven Articles

• renunciation of citizenship

Philosopher who said citizens have the right to create governments and dissolve governments:

• John Locke

• Benjamin Franklin

• Thomas Jefferson

• Adam Smith

Rule by a small group is a/an:

• monarchy

• democracy

• oligarchy

• dictatorship

A system of government in which rule is by the people is called

• communism

• democracy

• autocracy

• socialism

A government in which power is divided between the national government and the state government:

• federalism

• communism

• a confederation

• totalitarianism

A government in which people exercise their political power through elected representatives

• a republic

• an oligarchy

• capitalism

• socialism

The economic system in which freedom of choice is emphasized:

• capitalism

• Fascism

• socialism

• communism

The theory that states governments exist because of an agreement among the people:

• Social Contract theory

• Evolutionary theory

• Force theory

• Divine Right theory