Government Chapter 1 Test Review

People surrender to the state the power needed to maintain order

• Political Party

• Social Contract

• Sovereignty

• Government

A statement that sets forth the goals and purposes to be served by the government

• Preamble

• Politics

• Free Market

• Economics

The institution through which the state maintains social order, provides public services, and enforces decisions that are binding on all people living within the state

• Political Party

• State

• Government

• Sovereignty

Authority to rule are in the hands of a single individual

• Republic

• Confederacy

• Politics

• Autocracy

The effort to control or influence the conduct and policies of government

• Republic

• Confederacy

• Politics

• Special Interest Groups

State has supreme and absolute authority within its territorial boundaries

• Nation

• State

• Political Party

• Sovereignty

A loose union of independent states

• Confederacy

• Free Market

• Laissez-Faire

• Economics

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

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

• Constitutional Government

• Command Economy

A king, queen, or emperor exercises the supreme powers of government

• Social Contract

• Evolutionary

• Oligarchy

• Monarchy

A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them, or a form of government in which the people select representatives to govern them and make laws.

• Socialism

• Communism

• Democracy

• Monarchy