American Government Chapter 1

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

The supreme and absolute authority within territorial boundaries?

• Sovereignty
• State
• Country
• Local

A government that gives all key powers to the national or central government?

• Unitary
• Federal
• Constitution
• Confederacy

A loose union of independent states?

• Confederacy
• Nation-State
• Unitary
• Local

A loose union of independent states?

• Confederacy
• Nation-State
• Unitary
• Local

A government that divides the powers of government between the national government and state or provincial governments?

• Federal System
• Confederacy
• Unitary System
• Constitution

According to ___________, theory, states emerged when people needed to cooperate to survive and one person or a group took control

• Force
• Divine Right
• Social Contract 
• Evolutionary 

The __________________ theory refers to European rulers who proclaimed that their right to rule came from God alone

• Divine Right
• Force
• Evolutionary
• Social Contract

The belief that the notion of state evolved from the family

• Evolutionary Theory
• Force
• Divine Right
• Social Contract