Citizenship Unit 1 Quizziz

The idea that the government is authorized by citizens and influenced by what they want.

• Social Contract

• Divine Right

• Popular Sovereignty

• Limited Government

No government is all powerful, it can only do the things the people allow it do. This statement best describes which system of government? 

• Rule of Law

• Federal

• Parliamentary Democracy

• Limited Government

Which term best describes a system of government where all powers are held by one single, or central agency?

• Confederal

• Federal

• Unitary

• Presidential Democracy

An alliance of independent states whose main purpose is usually centered around defense and trade is known as _____________________?

• Federation

• Confederation

• Republic

• Unitary

This states that no one person is above the law or its consequences?

• Rule of Law

• Limited Government

• Divine Theory

• Popular Sovereignty

A ____________ has sovereign power held by those who are eligible to vote, while political power is exercised by the representatives chosen by the citizens.

• Autocracy

• Oligarchy

• Republic

• Confederal

• Make decisions on the behalf of others   

• Power to make laws is given to elected body

• Politicians are elected by citizens 

• All of these are part of .....

• Direct Democracy

• Representative Democracy

• Dictatorship

• Executive Democracy 

In the theory of the divine right of kings, to whom is the king accountable for his actions?

• God

• The People

• A Judge

• Parliament

What do an absolute monarchy and an autocracy have in common?

• A single ruler

• A written constitution

• A national court system

• A single legislative house 

Hobbes believed that once an agreement is made it must be kept no matter what. This is Hobbes......

• Social Contract

• Leviathan's Contract

• The State of Nature

• Popular Sovereignty