Gov Unit One Assessment

If a state originated by this theory, Its citizens probably have no choice in govt decisions & laws are enforced by the military.

• Social Contract Theory

• Force Theory

• Divine Right Theory

• Evolutionary Theory

The ______________ theory argues that the state evolved naturally out of the early family.

• Evolutionary

• Social Contract Theory

• Divine Right Theory

• Force Theory

The ______________ holds that God created the state and that God gives those of royal birth a ¨right” to rule.

• Theory of Divine RIght

• Social Contract Theory

• Force Theory

• Evolutionary Theory

The ____________ argues that the state arose out of a voluntary act of free people.

• Divine Right Theory

• Social Contract theory

• Evolutionary Theory

• Force Theory

Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece both had influences on the modern democratic state. What characteristic of our government today was most seen in the Roman Republic?

• Sovereignty

• Three Branches of government

• Federalism

• States Rights

A state has the following four characteristics:

• population, territory, sovereignty, and government.

• sovereignty, a perfect union, welfare, and territory.

• people, places, force, and divine right.

• justice, defense, liberty, and domestic tranquility.

The first English settlers brought with them ideas on what the basic concepts of government shoukd include. Which of the following describes the basic concept(s) of American government

• Ordered Government

• Limited Government

• Representative Government

• All of the Above

The philosopher _______ considered these rights—equality, life, liberty, property, and others—to be natural rights that humans have simply because they are human.

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Benjamin Franklin

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

In a ______________, citizens elect leaders to

represent their rights and interests in government. The elected leaders, or representatives, do the day-to-day work of governing the country.

• autocracy

• indirect democracy

• direct democracy

• dictatorship

Recognizes God as the ultimate authority

in government and law

• Theocracy

• Autocracy

• Dictatorship

• Oligarchy