Chapter 1 Lesson 1: Purposes & Origins of Government

a state without government and laws

• democracy

• communism

• anarchy

• socialism

The idea that government evolved from family

• Evolutionary Theory

• Force Theory

• Divine Right Theory

• Social Contract

The idea that government emerged when all the people of an area were brought under the authority of one person or group.

• Evolutionary Theory

• Force Theory

• Divine Right Theory

• Social Contract

The idea that people are chosen by a god or gods to rule

• Evolutionary Theory

• Force Theory

• Divine Right Theory

• Social Contract

theory that by contract, people surrender to the state the power needed to maintain order and the state, in turn, agrees to protect its citizens

• Evolutionary Theory

• Force Theory

• Divine Right Theory

• Social Contract

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

• school

• police

• government

• prison

a group of people united by bonds of race, language, custom, tradition, and sometimes religion

• nation

• state/country

• sovereignty

• county

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

• nation

• state/country

• sovereignty

• county

the supreme and absolute authority within territorial boundaries to rule one's self

• nation

• state/country

• sovereignty

• county

Philosopher that believed that all humans had "natural rights"

• Aristotle

• Thomas Paine

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke