Review class 2 Gov

_________________ is the supreme and ultimate power or authority within a territory. The buck stops with whoever has it.

• Power

• Authority

• Legitimacy

• Sovereignty

_________________________ is a society’s belief that their ruler or government has the right to rule.

• Power

• Authority

• Legitimacy

• Sovereignty

___________________ is the ability to get people to behave in certain ways, even when people don’t want to behave in those ways.

• Sovereignty

• Power

• Authority

• Legitimacy

_________________ is the right to rule.

• Authority

• Power

• Sovereignty

• Legitimacy

Ideas for American Democracy came from ____________ culture and _________________.

• European/customs

• Asian/traditions

• European/traditions

• Asian/customs

What ideas specifically were the Founding Fathers interested in?

• separation of powers

• individual rights and liberties

• expanding democracy

• re-creating a monarchy

• all of these

________________________-on individual rights, liberty, and the “rule of law.” Philosophers tried to identify the best kinds of government for preserving individuals’ natural rights.

• Ancient/Classical

• Medieval (Middle Ages)

• Renaissance/Age of Reason

• The Enlightenment

____________________-political philosophers began to approach politics as separate from religion. By the end of this period, they had stopped including religious ideas in their discussion of politics.

• Ancient/Classical

• Medieval (Middle Ages)

• Renaissance/Age of Reason

• The Enlightenment

______________________-Philosophers used reason and logic to argue that there was a natural moral law that applied to everyone.

• Ancient/Classical

• Medieval (Middle Ages)

• Renaissance/Age of Reason

• The Enlightenment

___________________________the relationship between divine law and human law, including government.

• Medieval (Middle Ages)

• Renaissance/Age of Reason

• The Enlightenment

• Renaissance/Age of Reason