Intro. to Government Unit 1 test

God created the state and that God had given those of royal birth the right to rule

• Force Theory

• Divine Right Theory

• Social Contract Theory

• Evolutionary Theory

People voluntarily came together and created the state.

• Force Theory

• Divine Right Theory

• Social Contract Theory

• Evolutionary Theory

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

• Force Theory

• Divine Right Theory

• Social Contract Theory

• Evolutionary 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

An alliance of independent states.

• autocracy

• unitary

• confederation

A government in which the legislative branch elects the president

• confederation

• democracy

• parliamentary

A government in which a single person holds unlimited political power

• autocracy

• unitary

• presidential

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

• unitary

• democracy

• oligarchy

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

• oligarchy

• parliamentary

• presidential

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

• presidential

• parliamentary

• unitary