Quiz - 1.1 Foundation Basics

What are the four most basic characteristics of any government?

• Power, Authority, Legitimacy, Sovereignty

• Power, Ability, Legitimacy, Control

• Power, Authority, Laws, Society,

• Legitimacy, Democracy, Power, Control

What is the ability to get people to behave in certain ways even when they don't want to?

• Authority

• Power

• Legitimacy

• Sovereignty

To learn more about the relationship with a government, its laws, and its society, it is most help to study the ​ (a)   of PALS.

• how
• what
• power
• authority
• legitimacy

What were the ideas about that were being discussed by political philosophers in Western Europe, which then influenced America's political philosophy?

• Individual rights and liberties

• Reason and logic

• Natural law and divine law

• Monarchies and dictatorships

Which of the following is an example of having power but not legitimacy?

• A dictator who seizes control through a violent overthrow then executes their rivals

• A king who inherits the throne from this ancestors

• A president elected by the people

• A religious leader established by divine right

Why is it important to study political philosophy?

(Select all that apply)

• To study the balance between reason and logic

• To find ways to address societal problems

• To analyze how PALS is or should be carried out

• To determine if a government is leading correctly

• To determine if a government is better than another

The study of ideas about what kind of relationship people should have to their society and government is:

• government

• law

• political philosophy

• the Enlightenment

Match the vocabulary word with its definition

• power

• the supreme and ultimate power or authority within

  a territory

• authority

• the study of ideas about what kind of relationship people should

  have to their society and government

• political philosophy

• the right to rule

• legitimacy

• a society’s belief that their ruler or government has

  the right to rule

• sovereignty

• The ability to get people to behave in certain ways even when

  people don’t want to behave in those ways is called

The political institutions, laws, and customs through which the function of governing is carried out is know as:

• law

• society

• government

• PALS

Rules and regulations made and enforced by government in order to prevent or resolve conflict are:

• sovereign

• laws

• government

• political philosophy