Foundations of Government Review Quiz

Which of the following characteristics are necessary to be a state? Check all that apply.

• People

• Sovereignty

• Territory

• Government

Society makes and enforces public policies through this institution.

• a constitution

• a government

• public policy

• politics

a small group of persons chosen by the people express the popular will in this type of goveernment

• autocracy

• oligarchy

• direct democracy

• indirect democracy

Which of the following is not a basic concept of democracy?

• each individual in a society has value

• everyone is entitled to equality of opportunity and equality before the law

• the majority must always recognize the rights of the minority in society

• absolute individual freedom

Which ideas are most closely aligned with the ideas of John Locke? Check all that apply.

• an authoritarian ruler needed to prevent social and political chaos

• all people endowed with natural rights

• people may remove a ruler by force if fail to protect natural rights

• social contract theory