Government - Chapter 1

All of the following are theories of the origins of the state except:

• Divine Right Theory

• Revolutionary Theory

• Social Contract Theory

• Force Theory

What system of government has strong local or state government, but a weak central government?

• Confederate System

• Unitary System

• Federal System

• Monarchy System

What system of government divides power between the central government and the local or state government?

• Federal System

• Unitary System

• Confederate System

• Monarchy System

All are the functions of government except?

• Creates Order

• Provides Leadership

• Provides Daycare

• Provides National Security

Who is attributed on coining the "state"?

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Adam Smith

• Cicero

A political community that occupies a definite territory and has an organized government?

• Country
• anarchy
• nation
• government

The supreme and absolute authority within territorial boundaries?

• Sovereignty
• State
• Country
• Local

A government in which a constitution has authority to place clearly recognized limits on the powers of those who govern?

• Constitutional Government
• Democracy
• Socialism
• State

_______________ governments control all aspect of citizens economic, political, and social lives

• Democracy
• Authoritarian
• Monarchy
• Oligarchy

Our Founding Fathers believed that which of the following forms of democracy would lead to mob rule?

• Direct Democracy
• Republic
• Representative Democracy
• Presidential Democracy