Civics Ch 1 Review

Which of the following statements are true about the Free Enterprise System?

• Does not rely on the government to decide how many products are made.

• Investments that are determined by private decision rather than state control.

• An economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods.

• All of the above

Supreme authority rests with the people.

• Government

• Democracy

• Popular Sovereignty

• Direct Democracy

An alliance of independent states.

• Federal Government

• Diplomacy

• Democracy

• Confederation

An economy in which private enterprise exists in combination with a considerable amount of government regulation and promotion.

• Mixed Economy

• Command Economy

• Free Economy

• Federal Economy

The process of blending and adjusting competing views and interests.

• Agreement

• Understanding

• Compromise

• None of the above

What is a public policy?

• All laws a government passes

• All of the things a government decides to do.

• All of the things politicians do

• All of the things a government suggests.

A single person holds unlimited political power.

• Dictatorship

• Oligarchy

• Autocracy

• Monarchy

A small group of persons, chosen by the people to act as their representatives, expresses the popular will.

• Indirect Democracy

• Direct Democracy

• Democracy

• Monarchy

A process by which a society decides how power and resources will be distributed within a society

• Democracy

• Government

• Voting

• Politics

Exists where the will of the people is translated into public policy directly by the people themselves in mass meetings.

• Mass Democracy

• Direct Democracy

• Indirect Democracy

• Public Democracy