WEEK 1 MP - AMERICAN GOV

What type of government has EXCUTIVE and LEGISLATIVE

powers separate and independent?

• Dictatorship
• Presidential Democracy

• Communism
• Anarchy

What/Who established the foundation for MOST of western

philosophy from the SOCIAL CONTRACT theory?

• Anarchism
• Communism
• Thomas Hobbs

• Divine right theory

Who argued that the king did not have absolute power; his role

was to protect the natural rights of the citizen?

• John Locke
• Magna Carta

• Abraham Lincoln
• Bill Clinton

What type of Government has all of the powers held

by one, single central agency?

• Autocratic government
• Federal government
• Unitary government
• Confederate government

What type of Government allows the will of the people translated

into public policy directly through mass meetings?

• Dictatorship
• Oligarchy
• Direct Democracy
• Monarchy

What type of government has one person holding

unlimited political power?

• Autocracy

• Anarchy
• Oligarchy
• Democracy

Who or what supported the idea of the king being

balanced by the Parliament?

• Voltaire
• Charles Montesquieu

• Thomas Hobbes
• John Locke

What document allowed citizens the right to petition

the king without fear of being punished?

• English Bill of Rights

• Declaration of Independence
• Bill of Rights
• Emancipation Proclamation

Who or what challenged the divine right theory; even monarchs were

expected to obey the law of the land?

• Petition of Right

• Anarchy
• Absolute monarchy
• Divine right theory

Who or what introduced the ideas of limited government?

• The Ming Dynasty
• Montesquieu

• The Soviet Union
• The Roman Empire