Government Chapter 1

a state’s government makes and enforces its own laws without approval from any other authority.

• Legitimacy

• Sovereignty

• Constitution

• Democracy

Governments provide some sort of domestic security force such as police or a national guard to enforce laws and to keep peace. Which function is this?

• Maintain Order

• Provide Leadership

• Provide National Security

• Provide Economic Security

Characteristics of a state include: Population, Territory, Sovereignty, and?

• Official Religion

• Official Language

• Law

• Government

A state must have a population size of

• 100,000 people

• 10,000 people

• There is not a certain amount

• 200,000 people

When people give power to the state to maintain order, which origin of theory is this?

• Evolutionary

• Divine Right

• Force

• Social Contract

When all the people in an area were brought under the authority of 1 person or group, is which origin of theory?

• Evolutionary

• Force

• Divine Right

• Social Contract

citizens cast a vote directly on government issues and laws.

• Authoritarian

• Direct Democracy

• Representative Democracy

• Constitutional Democracy

What are the theories of the origins of the state?

• Evolutionary Theory

• Force Theory

• Divine Right Theory

• Social Contract Theory

• Revolutionary Theory

An institution through which leaders exercise power to make and enforce laws affecting the people under its control?

• Government
• Economics
• Socialism
• Oregon

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

• State
• Nation
• Government
• Anarchy