Ch.1 Origin/Citizenship

A group of people who share a common culture and identity as a cohesive group is a called a ___.

• Nation State
• Nation
• Country
• Sovereign State

An area organized into a independent political unit is a 

• colony
• territory
• satellite
• State

What is the government?

• an institution through which leaders exercise power to make and enforce laws affecting the people under it's control.

• group of people that fight for the people in wars.

• A single man that controls anything and everything.

• a Political Party.

Sovereignty is ________. (Be careful with this one)

• the supreme and absolute authority within a territorial boundary.

• the majority of people that want something.

• the minority of people that want something.

• Power of the people.

Is the belief that monarchs get their authority to rule directly from God?

• Divine Right
• Legislature
• Separation of Powers
• Natural Rights

What is an agreement between people and the government?

• Consent
• Natural Rights
• Social Contract
• Voting

Social contract theory means that people agree to give up some of their rights for the government's protection.

• True
• False

The "Force Theory" implies that _______________.

• States emerged as a result of people realizing that they need to cooperate in order to survive and became organized only when a group of people took control.

• That an imbalance of people between people forces people to fight against each other.

• People are forced to get along with each other because of struggle for resources.

• Countries are made because people force other people to obey them.

"Divine Right" theory implies that __________.

• People vote for the status of God.

• People vote for the people they pronounce holy.

• The people are held to a certain social status because of religious position.

• When rulers are believed to be chosen by Gods or descended from Gods.

All of these are characteristics of a state EXCEPT

• Sovereignty
• Population
• Land
• Autocracy