Government Final Exam

Name:

Government in which rulers are believed divinely inspired

• Economy
• Monarchy
• Oligarchy
• Theocracy
• Democracy

When the Declaration of Independence states it is drawing on “the Laws of Nature and Nature's God,” it is expressing an idea that primarily originated with

• George Washington
• John Locke
• Richard Henry Lee
• Samuel Adams

Who believed that the people needed a strong ruler to protect them from themselves and to prevent them from returning to a state of nature?

• A. Thomas Hobbes
• B. Voltaire
• C. John Locke
• D. Jean Jacques Rosseau

In a state of nature, everyone had a right to everything. In order to get what they wanted, people would always be at war with everyone else.

• True
• False

Which right was guaranteed in the excerpt below from the Magna Carta? “No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land”

• Freedom of religion
• Freedom of the press
• No taxation without representation
• Trial by Jury

A Hereditary king or queen that exercises supreme power

• Autocracy
• Monarchy
• Oligarchy
• Theocracy
• Democracy

Ancient Greece is considered the birthplace of this form of government-

• Autocracy
• Monarchy
• Oligarchy
• Theocracy
• Direct Democracy

Which of the "Big Ideas" was best represented in the Mayflower Compact?

• due process
• self government
• limited government
• rights

Which of the "Big Ideas" was best represented in the English Bill of Rights?

• Due Process
• Limited Government
• Rule of Law
• Self Government