Government Vocabulary 1 2024

Rule by a single group or authority which controls all aspects of government is called a democracy.

• True

• False

The belief that absolute monarchs have God's blessing to rule how they see fit is called a dictatorship.

• True

• False

The agreement that people in a state of nature would reach to a form of government is called a social contract.

• True

• False

The lack of established government is called anarchy.

• True

• False

Individual rights which are preserved by law from government authority and are believed to be fundamental are called inalienable rights.

• True

• False

Government that cannot breach certain legal rights of citizens.

• Moses

• Popular sovereignty

• Limited government

• Absolutism

English philosopher who originated the idea of a state of nature. He believed that it would involve "the war of all against all" and that people would agree to an absolute monarchy instead.

• Hammurabi

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Thomas Hobbes

• Abraham Lincoln

Government by representatives elected by the people.

• Republic

• Monarchy

• Limited Government

• Dictatorship

Authoritarianism is

• Rule by religious leaders.

• A type of popular sovereignty.

• Rule by a single monarch.

• Rule by a party or group that retains all authority and power in a state.

Swiss philosopher that detailed the idea of a social contract and believed that people would rarely come in contact with each other in a state of nature except to form a civil society.

• Jean Jaques Rosseau

• Moses

• John Rawls

• Alexander Hamilton