Foundations of Government

This is the institution through which society makes and enforces public policies...

• public poilcy

• government

• sovereignty

• state

What is the laws created by a government for a nation or state?

• government

• statehood

• public policy

• laws

Which government power is the power to make laws and create public poicy?

• executive power

• judicial power

• legislative power

This type of government power is the power to interpret laws or determine meaning.

• executive power

• judicial power

• legislative power

The executive power of government is the power to execute, enforce, and create laws

• true

• false

In a democracy, supreme authority or power rests with ____.

This is a group of people living in a defined territory, organized politically, and with power to make and enforce laws

• government

• state

• supreme government

• sovereign state

This characteristic a state must have to actually be considered a state is having defined borders

• population

• territory

• sovereignty

• government

This theory on origin of the state says a person or group claimed control over a people to follow their will

• force theory

• evolutionary theory

• divine right of kings theory

• social contract theory

____ would be an example of state raised by the force theory.

• United States

• Great Britain

• Soviet Union

• Nazi Germany