Brief Chapter 1 Review

List the three kinds of power that every government has.

• legislative, executive, & judicial

• executive, legislative, autocracy

• consent of the governed

• divine right

What are the four characteristics of a state?

• population, territory, sovereignty, government

• representative democracy, population, territory, sovereignty

• monarch, population, territory, parliament

• democracy, population, territory, government

What is the American economic system often referred to as? 

• re-distribution of wealth system

• free enterprise system

• american economic system

• mercantilism

The dominant political unit in the world today is?

• government

• nation

• state

• constitution

The individual 50 States lack which basic characteristic of a state?

• sovereignty

• Constitution

• government

• defined population

The Framers drew on the ideas of the British political philosophers __________ in perceiving the relationship between government and the governed as a social contract.

• Charles Darwin and William Montague

• Thomas Aquinas and Alexis de Tocqueville

• John Locke

• Michel Foucault and Herbert Marcuse

The right to life, liberty, and property, according to John Locke, are__________ rights, rights so fundamental that government cannot take them away.

• alienable

• constitutional

• human

• natural

​A republic is a form of government in which power derives from

• ​a supreme mandate of the masses, rather than from divine right.

• the citizens but their representatives make policy and govern.

• the majoritarian consensus of all citizens.

• ​sectarian violence.

​In monarchies, autocracies, and oligarchies, a single person or small elite rules society. These systems are by definition

• undemocratic

• democratic

• fascist.

• monopolistic

The further right you are on the Political Spectrum, the more you support:

• The Upperclass

• Conservative ideas

• The working class

• Fascism