Benchmark 3 Key Terms

Which is a political system based upon the undivided sovereignty or rule of a single person?

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Authoritarian

• Dictatorship

Which is a form of government characterized by the rule of a few persons or families?

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Dictatorship

Which is a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god?

• Authoritarian

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

• Theocracy

Who believed that a Government existed, among other things, to promote the public good, and to protect the life, liberty, and property of its people?

• Washington

• Locke

• Rousseau

• Johnson

Who believed in a direct democracy in which everyone voted to express the general will and to make the laws of the land?

• Locke

• Jefferson

• Rousseau

• Montesquieu

Which is a centralized government that makes all powers held by the government belong to a single, central agency?

• Presidential

• Parliamentary

• Unitary

• Autocratic

In which of these do the citizens vote for a president who becomes the head of state?

• Presidential Democracy

• Authoritarian

• Parliamentary

• Unitary

Which is a system of government that puts the real executive power in a cabinet composed of members of the legislature who are individually and collectively responsible to the legislature?

• Oligarchy

• Presidential Democracy

• Authoritarian

• Parliamentary

Which is a political system that concentrates power in the hands of a leader or a small elite that is not constitutionally responsible to the body of the people?

• Presidential Democracy

• Authoritarian

• Direct Democracy

• Republic

Which was the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government were not above the law which sought to prevent the king from exploiting his power and placed limits on royal authority by establishing law as a power in itself?

• Hobb's Social Contract

• Leviathan

• Magna Carta Rights

• The Discourse on the Origin of Inequality