Unit 1 & 2 Semester Review - 2020

What institution is created by a society to create and enforce public policies?

• Government

• Preamble

• Bureaucracy

• Parliament

If a nation-state has half of the population out of work, what purpose has its government failed to perform?

• Economic Stability

• Order

• Conflict Resolution

• Social Contract

What document declares that "We the people of these United States, in order to form a more perfect union ..."?

• Politics Among Nations

• The preamble of the U.S. Constitution

• The Second Treatise of Government

• The Declaration of Independence

Which item is something that almost every society has had?

• written laws

• circuses

• a king

• government

Which theory about the origins of government holds that government was created as an extension of family ties or the generational passing of power?

• divine right theory

• contract theory

• evolution theory

• force theory

What is authority?

• supreme authority within a specified territory

• the power of a nation-state to determine its form of government

• the ability to control the actions of others

• power that is recognized as legitimate or recognized by the people

What is the name for the form of government where power is held by a small group of people who then control the entire government?

• direct democracy

• indirect democracy, or republic

• oligarchy

• autocracy

What is the term for a government where power is concentrated at the regional or provincial level, and the central government has very weak and limited powers?

• federal government

• parliamentary government

• republican government

• confederate government, unified or central government

Which of these ideas had the most influence on the American Revolution and the Constitution?

• the Enlightenment

• the Great Awakening

• the Renaissance

• Socialism

Which Enlightenment philosopher influenced the colonists to include the fundamental rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the Declaration of Independence?

• Aristotle

• John Locke

• Morgantheau

• Thomas Hobbes