AMERICAN GOVT. UNIT ONE REVIEW

Government is defined as the institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Every government has and exercises three basic kinds of power. They are....

• legislative power, power of attorney, and municipal power.

• legislative power, executive power, and judicial power

• presidential power, executive power, and municipal power.

• legislative power, executive power, and municipal power.

The four characteristics of a state are...

• universal tranquility , military enforcement, financial solvency and popular sovereignty.

• population, territory, sovereignty, and government.

• judicial authority, military enforcement, financial solvency and popular sovereignty.

• public well being, financial solvency, effective transportation, universal healthcare and educational transparency.

The States within the United States are not sovereign. 

• TRUE

• FALSE

After winning independence from Great Britain, the United States drew this up in 1781, 

• Articles of Confederation.

• Bill of Rights

• The Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

________________ are one illustration of the government’s work to promote the general welfare. 

• Private Healthcare

• Entertainment Industry

• Private Enterprise

• Public Schools

 All governments can be classified according to 3 basic features. They are....

• who can participate in the governing process, centralized power within the government, and relationship between the legislative (lawmaking) and the executive (law-executing) branches of the government.

• selective participate in the governing process, centralized power within the government, and relationship between the legislative (lawmaking) and the executive (law-executing) branches of the government.

• who can participate in the governing process, the distribution of governmental power within the state and relationship between the judicial and the executive (law-executing) branches of the government.

• who can participate in the governing process, the distribution of governmental power within the state and relationship between the legislative (lawmaking) and the executive (law-executing) branches of the government.

A Democracy, where the people themselves formulate public policy, is known as...

• Direct Democracy

• Representative Democracy.

• Indirect Democracy

• Selective Democracy

In a republic, the sovereign, or supreme, power is held by _____________________

• the congress of the U.S

• those eligible to vote,

• the Executive Branch

• all citizens

______________________ is probably the oldest, and it is certainly the most common, form of government known to history.

• dictatorship

• Theocracy

• Constitutional Monarchy

• democracy