Foundations of Government & Citizenship Review

One person or a small group claimed control over an area and forced all within to submit to that person's or group's rule.

• Force Theory

• Evolutionary Theory

• Divine Right Theory

• Social Contract Theory

People voluntarily came together and created the state

• Force Theory

• Evolutionary Theory

• Divine Right Theory

• Social Contract Theory

Claims the state developed naturally out of the earliest group unit, the family.

• Force Theory

• Evolutionary Theory

• Divine Right Theory

• Social Contract Theory

God created the state and that God had given those of royal birth the right to rule.

• Force Theory

• Evolutionary Theory

• Divine Right Theory

• Social Contract Theory

A government in which all the powers are held by a central agency which then gives out the remainder of the powers to local government for its own convenience

• Unitary

• Confederation

• Parliamentary

• Democracy

A government in which the power to rule is held by a small, usually self-appointed elite group

• autocracy

• democracy

• oligarchy

• unitary

An alliance of independent states.

• Unitary

• Confederation

• Parliamentary

• Democracy

A government in which the legislative branch elects the president

• Unitary

• Confederation

• Parliamentary

• Democracy

Which IS NOT a characteristic of a nation-state?

• population

• territory

• sovereignty

• resources

• government

"Majority rule, minority rights" is practiced in a

• democracy

• dictatorship

• monarchy

• autocracy