Government - Unit 1 Vocab Quiz

Which of the following means a state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority

• monarchy
• anarchy
• Magna Carta
• democracy

Written in 1215, a charter of liberties (freedoms) that King John was forced to sign; it made the king obey the same laws as the citizens of his kingdom

• Unitary Government
• Social Contract Theory
• Monarchy
• Magna Carta

A centralized government in which all government powers belong to a single, central agency is called ____________.

• Capitalism
• Communism
• Unitary Government
• Democracy

The idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs.

• Magna Carta
• Mayflower Compact
• Lassez-faire
• Social Contract Theory

A government ruled by a king or queen is a _________.

• Unitary Goverment
• ideal of Karl Marx
• monarchy
• Proletariat

The founder of modern communism was _____________.

• Karl Marx
• Thomas Jefferson
• Buddha
• Adam Smith

A system in which society, usually in the form of the government, owns and controls some of the means of production.is called _____________.

• Socialism
• Unitary Government
• Communism
• Capitalism

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

• Direct Democracy
• Social Contract Theory
• Divine Right Theory
• Capitalism

The basis of natural rights philosophy; a ____________ is the condition of people living in a situation without man-made government, rules, or laws, and asks what will happen

• state of nature
• divine right theory
• social contracy theory
• spontaneous order

The belief that people are free and equal by natural right, and that this in turn requires that all people give their consent to be governed; espoused by John Locke and influential in the writing of the Declaration of Independence.

• Democratic Socialism
• Divine Right Theory
• State of Nature
• Social Contract Theory