GOVT: Unit 1 Vocab Quiz

A form of democracy in which the people govern themselves by voting on issues.

• Representative Democracy

• public policy

• Direct Democracy

• republican

A (a)   is a political community in which the PEOPLE control the government through elected political officials and give them the responsibility and power to make laws and conduct government. This is also called a republic.

• representative democracy
• direct democracy
• populism
• capitalism

The number of persons living in a geographical area.

The institution through which the state maintains social order, provides public services, and enforces binding decisions on citizens.

• government

• society

• population

• republic

Public policy

• The course of action a society takes in response to some issue or problem

• The issue a government makes in response to some international or national provocation

• The course of action a person takes in response to some issue or problem

• The course of action a government takes in response to some issue or problem

True or false: A state is a political community that occupies a definite territory and has an organized government with the power to make and enforce laws without approval from any higher authority.

• True

• false

A political theory that states that by contract, people surrender to the state the power needed to maintain order and the state, in turn, agrees to protect its citizens.

• Social Contract Theory
• Anarchy Theory
• Communism Theory
• Capitalism Theory

A system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.

• Hierarchy
• Democracy
• Anarchy
• Monarchy

To arrange laws or rules into a systematic, written code.

• To codify
• To legislate
• To mandate
• To decree

A principle under which all persons, institutions, and entities are accountable to laws that are: Equally enforced as well as publicly declared.

• Rule of Law
• Rule of Power
• Rule of Majority
• Rule of Monarchy