Purpose & Forms of Government Quiz

______ supreme and absolute power within its own territory

• social contract

• divine right

• anarchy

• sovereignty

The United States is a _______.

• State

• Nation-State

• Nation

TRUE OR FALSE: A nation refers to a homogenous group of people who rule themselves.

• True

• False

What is NOT something a state must have?

• People

• Territory

• Politics

• Government

Which purpose of government is creating court systems?

• form more perfect union

• insure domestic tranquility

• establish justice

• promote the general welfare

Which purpose of government is creating a police force?

• form more perfect union

• insure domestic tranquility

• establish justice

• promote the general welfare

Which purpose of government is launching satellites and creating nuclear weapones?

• form more perfect union

• insure domestic tranquility

• providing for the common defense

• promote the general welfare

Which purpose of government is creating a written constitution with a bill of rights?

• form more perfect union

• secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our Prosterity

• providing for the common defense

• promote the general welfare

Which purpose of government is permitting petitions and peaceful protests?

• form more perfect union

• secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our Prosterity

• providing for the common defense

• insure domestic tranquiltiy

Which purpose of government is providing roads and vaccine clinics?

• form more perfect union

• secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our Prosterity

• providing for the common defense

• promote the general welfare