Chapter 1 Test

God created the state and that God had given those of royal birth the right to rule

• Divine Right Theory
• Evolutionary Theory
• Chaos Theory
• Social Contract Theory

One person or a small group claimed control over an area and forced all within to submit to that person’s or group’s rule

• Evolutionary Theory
• Force Theory
• Social Contract Theory
• Chaos Theory

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

• Force Theory
• Social Contract Theory
• Chaos Theory
• Evolutionary Theory

People voluntarily came together and created the state.

• Chaos Theory
• Evolutionary Theory
• Social Contract Theory
• Divine Right Theory

A government in which all the powers are held by a central agency which then gives out the remainder of the powers to local government for its own convenience

• Autocracy
• Oligarchy
• Unitary
• Presidential

A government in which the power to rule is held by a small, usually self-appointed elite group

• Oligarchy
• Democracy
• Parliamentary
• Confederation

A government in which the president is directly elected by the people

• Oligarchy
• Confederation
• Democracy
• Presidential

A government in which a single person holds unlimited political power

• Unitary
• Autocracy
• Confederation
• Presidential

The supreme political authority rest with the people and the citizens themselves

• Democracy
• Oligarchy
• Unitary
• Confederation

An alliance of independent states

• Confederation
• Democracy
• Parliamentary
• Oligarchy