Government Unit 1 Quiz

Made up of the formal institutions and processes through which decisions are made for a group of people.

• Politics

• Liberty

• Government

• Free Enterprise

Any decision made by government in pursuit of a particular goal.

• Power

• Policy

• Liberty

• Secular

Each state has this. It is their supreme power to act within its territory and to control its external affairs.

• Sovereignty

• Politics

• Legitimacy

• Secular

Political philosophy concerning the idea that rulers have this and it makes it right and proper  for them to make decisions on peoples’ behalf and it is voluntarily accepted.

• politics

• Legitimacy

• Aristocracy

• Liberty

Theory of government where people agree among themselves to submit to the authority of the state and in return, the state provides people protection and support.

• Free Enterprise

• Equality

• Sovereignty

• Social Contract Theory

System of government in which one person can hold unlimited power.

• Democracy

• Dictatorship

• Theocracy

• Oligarchy

Ruled by a few with high social status.

• Monarchy

• Aristocracy

• Oligarchy

• Theocracy

Government under the rule of a small group of religious leaders.

• Direct Democracy

• Democracy

• Theocracy

• Secular

Form of government where citizens meet regularly in a popular assembly to discuss issues and vote for leaders.

• Direct Democracy

• Republic

• Aristocracy

• Dictatorship

System of government where things like sovereignty, or ultimate authority, rests in a single national government.

• Unitary System

• Federal System

• Confederal System

• Presidential System