US Gov Unit 1

God created the state and that God had given those of royal birth the right to rule.

• Force Theory

• Evolutionary Theory

• Divine Right Theory

• Social Contract Theory

• Chaos Theory

One person or a small group claimed control over an area and forced all within to submit to that person’s or group’s rule.

• Force Theory

• Evolutionary Theory

• Divine Right Theory

• Social Contract Theory

• Chaos Theory

Claims the state developed naturally out of the earliest group unit, the family.

• Force Theory

• Evolutionary Theory

• Divine Right Theory

• Social Contract Theory

• Chaos Theory

People voluntarily came together and created the state.

• Force Theory

• Evolutionary Theory

• Divine Right Theory

• Social Contract Theory

• Chaos Theory

A government in which all the powers are held by a central agency which then gives out the remainder of the powers to local government for its own convenience.

• Democracy

• Autocracy

• Oligarchy

• Unitary

• Parliamentary

A government in which the power to rule is held by a small, usually self-appointed elite group.

• Unitary

• Parliamentary

• Autocracy

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

A government in which the president is directly elected by the people.

• Presidential

• Democracy

• Autocracy

• Oligarchy

• Parliamentary

A government in which a single person holds unlimited political power.

• Unitary

• Autocracy

• Democracy

• Parliamentary

• Oligarchy

The supreme political authority rests with the people and the citizens themselves.

• Democracy

• Autocracy

• Oligarchy

• Unitary

• Parliamentary

An alliance of independent states.

• Parliamentary

• Oligarchy

• Autocracy

• Democracy

• Confederation