government quiz unit 1

Protection- Free from outside interference and threats

Maintain Order- Laws and police to prevent chaos

Resolve Conflicts- Keep peace within 

Provide Services- Transportation, unemployment insurance, infrastructure etc…

Stabilize the economy

purposes of government

• protetion

• maintain order

• resolve conflict

• provide services

• stabilize the economy

a group of people within the state that share the same race, language, culture, customs, traditions, and sometimes religion

charateristics of a nation state

• Popular sovereignty 

• Borders

• Population

• government

Extension of family hierarchy - your extended family (leaders) would be the elderly - - survived (tough) and old (knowledge)

• Evolutionary

• Force theory

• Divine right

• Social Contract

One group conquered another - if you don't use weapons you could not defend your own 

• Evolutionary

• Force theory

• Divine right

• Social Contract

Power to rule from God - absolute monarchs - they had to be listened to because they were chosen from god 

• Evolutionary

• Force theory

• Divine right

• Social Contract

People give leaders their permission to rule according to a written agreement of laws and liberties - that there is an agreement between the rulers and the rules - people were scared so they made an agreement with the stronger and more powerful people - the weaker gave up some freedoms to get protection

• Evolutionary

• Force theory

• Divine right

• Social Contract

consists of the local gov and has only those powers that are given to them by the federal government, which are limited and can be changed or eliminated while in a federal government. The federal level has all of the power - they can even dissolve the lower forms of government

• unitary government

• federal government

• confederate government

a division of power between the federal and the state (federal, central and national are all the same thing) certain powers are reserved for the local government, others are shared by both the central and the local government and others are delegated to the central government only

• unitary government

• federal government

• confederate government