The United States is a _______.

TRUE OR FALSE: A nation refers to a homogenous group of people who rule themselves.

What is NOT something a state must have?

Which purpose of government is creating court systems?

Which purpose of government is creating a police force?

Which purpose of government is launching satellites and creating nuclear weapones?

Which purpose of government is creating a written constitution with a bill of rights?

Which purpose of government is permitting petitions and peaceful protests?

Which purpose of government is providing roads and vaccine clinics?

Which purpose of government is allowing future generations to make changes to the constitution?

individuals who lead the people form the ....

individuals who lead the people are given authority by ....

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The rules made by a government and the methods it uses to enforce those rules are called ....

The study of how a government makes and enforces public policy is called

What time is this assignment due by?

 The state’s government ......

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____ natural rights and that governments have a responsibility to protect those rights. 

True or False. John Locke wrote the book Leviathan (1651), about the need for what he called a social contract between governments and the governed.

Hobbes and Locke believed that people needed a strong government to keep them from turning into _____

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Locke’s writings influenced Thomas Jefferson’s writing of the ______

Believed a government’s primary role was protecting its state from being attacked.

True or False. States are often called nations or continents.

The study of how a government makes and enforces public policy is called

True or False. Most states have a single, organized government whose power is recognized by the people inside the state.

People can believe they belong to a nation, even if that nation does not have a ________.

True or False. Region is another word for a state.

A state is a political body with its own....

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An example of a nation is ....

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True or False. The 50 states inside the United States are fully sovereign.