United States Government Final Exam

All of the following are the three basic powers that all governments have except:

• legislative

• executive

• judicial

• bureaucratic

What enlightenment philosopher was an important contributor to the social contract theory?

• Baron de Montesquieu

• John Locke

• Robert Livingston

• Hammurabi

When supreme political authority rests with the people, what type of government is this?

• autocracy

• dictatorship

• democracy

• oligarchy

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

• State

• Country

• Democracy

• Government

All of the following are features found within a state except:

• territory

• written constitution

• people

• government

There are three types of power that are divided geographically, which one has all power held by a central government?

• unitary

• federal

• confederal

• dictatorship

A(n) _______________________ is one who holds both rights and responsibilities in a state.

• alien

• immigrant

• migrant

• citizen

All of the following are basic notions that were brought from England that shaped the government of the United States except:

• ordered government

• trusting government

• representative government

• limited government

What did the Magna Carta, English Petition of Right, and English Bill of Rights have in common?

• representative government

• limited government

• written constitutions

• popular sovereignty

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

• James Madison

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• Alexander Hamilton