Unit 1 Review

God creates the state and gives those of royal birth the right to rule

• Force Theory

• Evolutionary Theory

• Divine Right Theory

• Social Contract Theory

One person or a small group claimed control over an area and forced all within to submit to that person’s or group’s rule

• Force Theory

• Evolutionary Theory

• Divine Right Theory

• Social Contract Theory

Claims the state developed naturally out of the earliest group, the family

• divine right theory

• social contract theory

• evolutionary theory

• force theory

A government in which all the powers are held by a central agency which then gives out the remainder of the powers to local government for its own convenience

• Democracy

• Autocracy

• Unitary

• Federal

A government in which the power to rule is held by a small, usually self-appointed elite group

• Parliamentary

• Confederation

• Indirect democracy

• Oligarchy

A government in which the president is directly elected by the people

• dictatorship

• parliamentary

• presidential

• unitary

A government in which a single person holds unlimited political power

• autocracy

• democracy

• oligarchy

• presidential

The supreme political authority rest with the people and the citizens themselves

• Democracy

• dictatorship

• Unitary

• Oligarchy

An alliance of independent states

• Parliamentary

• Federal

• Confederation

• Unitary

A government in which the legislative branch elects the president

• parliamentary

• oligarchy

• autocracy

• presidential