Unit 1: Foundations of Government

__________: A government in which the power to rule is held by a small group of elites.

• a. Democracy
• b. Autocracy
• c. Oligarchy
• d. Parliamentary
• e. Presidential

__________: A government in which the head of state, the President, is directly elected by the people.

• a. Democracy
• b. Autocracy
• c. Oligarchy
• d. Parliamentary
• e. Presidential

__________: A government in which one person holds unlimited political power.

• a. Democracy
• b. Autocracy
• c. Oligarchy
• d. Parliamentary
• e. Presidential

__________: A government in which the legislative branch elects the head of state, known as the the Prime Minister.

• a. Democracy
• b. Autocracy
• c. Oligarchy
• d. Parliamentary
• e. Presidential

__________: A type of government in which political authority rests with the people

• a. Democracy
• b. Autocracy
• c. Oligarchy
• d. Parliamentary
• e. Presidential

__________: Claims God created the state, and gave those of royal birth the right to rule.

• a. Divine Right Theory
• b. Force Theory
• c. Social Contract Theory
• d. Evolutionary Theory

__________: Claims one person or small group claimed control over an area and forced all within to submit to that person's or group's rule.

• a. Divine Right Theory
• b. Force Theory
• c. Social Contract Theory
• d. Evolutionary Theory

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

• a. Divine Right Theory
• b. Force Theory
• c. Social Contract Theory
• d. Evolutionary Theory

__________: Claims people came together voluntarily and created the state. People agreed to give up certain freedoms, in return for protection.

• a. Divine Right Theory
• b. Force Theory
• c. Social Contract Theory
• d. Evolutionary Theory

The idea of "Separation of Church and State" was introduced by which Enlightenment philosopher?

• a. John Locke

• b. Thomas Hobbes

• c. Voltaire

• d. Montesquieu