VUS GOVT 2A-2F POWER QUIZ PRACTICE

Which form of democracy is the most basic in which all the people govern themselves?

• Direct democracy

• Monarchy

• Representative democracy

• Oligarchy

A political community in which the people control the government through elected political officials, and give them the responsibility and power to make laws and conduct government is called -

• Direct democracy

• Aristocracy

• Representative democracy

• Monarchy

The Greek city-state of Athens was a self-governing unit whose small populations relied on which type of government?

• Direct democracy

• Indirect democracy

• A republic

• Representative democracy

Roman territory was spread out, and much larger than Greece. Rome relied on which type of government?

• Monarchy

• Direct democracy

• Indirect democracy

• Oligarchy

Which principle states that those who govern and those that are governed must obey the law and are subject to the same laws?

• Right to vote

• Checks and balances

• Popular sovereignty

• Rule of law

Which early charter was one of the first documents that set limits on the king’s power, and granted certain civil rights and liberties to English nobles and over time to all “freedmen?”

• Articles of Confederation

• Magna Carta

• Two Treatises of Government

• Declaration of Independence

Which early English document was a list of demands that included basic rights and established the concept of rule of law?

• The U.S. Constitution

• U.S. Bill of Rights

• English Petition of Rights

• Declaration of Independence

Which document from 1689 would prevent members of Parliament from being punished for signing petitions or prevent an army from being created during peacetime?

• Mayflower Compact

• English Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

• English Petition of Rights

Montesquieu wrote about which principle that was later adopted into early American documents?

• Limited government

• Consent of the governed

• Separation of powers

• Separation of religion and state

John Locke built upon the works of Thomas Hobbes and believed that a ruler gains authority through -

• hereditary right

• divine right

• absolutism

• the consent of the governed