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Gov Unit 1: Week 1 Key Terms

Authored by Rachel Hammond

Social Studies

12th Grade

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Gov Unit 1: Week 1 Key Terms
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

An implicit agreement between individuals of a society and their government to lay down some of their freedoms in return for social benefits like security.

Natural rights

Social contract

Popular sovereignty

Tabula rasa

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A document that describes the laws and organization of a nation.

Social contract

Declaration

Constitution

Government contract

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Concept that holds that the government and its officers are always subject to the law.

Rule of law

Tabula rasa

Social contract

Popular sovereignty

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A system of government in which policies and laws are decided by a majority of all those eligible rather than by a body of elected representatives.

Monarchy

Direct democracy

Parliamentary system

Representative Democracy

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Rights that all human beings are born with.

Tabula rasa

Rule of law

Natural rights

Social contract

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

An idea that asserts that the people are the source of any all governmental power, and government can exist only with the consent of the governed.

Social contract

Separation of powers

Direct democracy

Popular sovereignty

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A system of government in which power is explicitly vested in the people, who in turn exercise their power through elected representatives.


Monarchy

Direct democracy

Parliamentary system

Representative Democracy

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