Unit 5: Classifying Governments

Which of the following is not one of the four roles of government?

• make laws
• protect the country

• suppress citizens' rights

• keeping order

What organization was created to establish peace and protect human rights?

• NATO

• The World Bank

• The Conference of Universal Rights

• United Nations

Basic freedoms and protections everyone deserves are known as

• human rights
• the golden rule
• constitutional allowances
• laws

Which of the following is an example of helping citizens?

• seatbelt laws

• the Marines

• the FBI

• education systems and schools

What role of government would the army be considered?

• making laws
• protecting the country

• keeping order in the state
• helping citizens

Which would be an example of "keeping order"

• the sheriff

• the Army

• child labor laws

• retirement benefits

How are direct democracy and representative democracy alike?

• both use fear and intimidation to gain power
• both have a leader who was elected
• citizens have a voice in both
• the right to rule is passed down through family

A constitutional monarchy and an absolute monarchy are like because

• both are guided by a constitution
• both have an important monarch
• the power of the monarch is equal in both
• both use fear and intimidation to gain power

How are a dictatorship and an absolute monarchy alike

• the leader has unlimited power in both
• the leader is elected in both
• people have a voice in the government in both
• the right to rule is because of divine favor

In which form of government do people have a voice through elected representatives?

• direct democracy
• representative democracy
• theocracy
• absolute monarchy