What does PALS stand for?

• Potential, authority, legalism, and sovereignty.

• Power, Authority, Legitimacy, Sovereignty.

• Power, authority, legislation, sovereignty.

What is the definition of power?

• The ability to be able to rule a country or group of people based on certain characteristics.

• The ability to be able to get people to do what you say at all times.

• The ability to get people to behave in certain ways even when people don’t want to behave in those ways. Think of power as the ability to rule.

• A characteristic that allows a government to rule with an iron fist.

What is the definition of authority?

• the supreme and ultimate power or authority within a territory.  The buck stops with whoever has sovereignty.

• a society’s belief that their ruler or government has the right to rule.

• The ability to get people to behave in certain ways even when people don’t want to behave in those ways. Think of power as the ability to rule.

• The right to rule.

Legitimacy is...

• a society’s belief that their ruler or government has the right to rule.

• the supreme and ultimate power or authority within a territory.  The buck stops with whoever has sovereignty.

• the right to rule.

• the ability to get people to behave in certain ways even when people don’t want to behave in those ways. Think of power as the ability to rule.

Sovereignty is...

• the ability to get people to behave in certain ways even when people don’t want to behave in those ways. Think of power as the ability to rule.

• the right to rule.

• a society’s belief that their ruler or government has the right to rule.

• the supreme and ultimate power or authority within a territory.  The buck stops with whoever has sovereignty.

You attend a school with a uniform policy, even though you don't want to wear it. You are expected to be in uniform everyday. If you are not, there are consequences. This is an example of...

• Authority

• Legitimacy

• Sovereignty

• Power

The king has died and his oldest son is next in line to take over the throne. This is an example of...

• Power

• Authority

• Legitimacy

• Sovereignty

The leader of North Korea severely oppresses the people of the country, but the people allow it because they believe that he has been placed in his position by god. This is an example of...

• Legitimacy

• Authority

• Power

• Sovereignty

A court case regarding a political matter in our country makes it all the way to the supreme court. They make a ruling on the matter and the buck stops with that ruling. This is an example of

• Power

• Authority

• Sovereignty

• Legitimacy

One of the overall points of this class was to...

• See how many students could stay awake.

• Have you memorize facts about government.

• Give you a baseline of knowledge about government for Civics.

• Show you historical representations of type of government.