WorksheetsUnit 1 Review - Principles of Government
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
The institution that a society creates to make and carry out policies.
Government
Anarchy
Bureaucracy
Corporation
Which of the following is not one of the five purposes of government?
Public Services
Social Order
Protection
Commerce
"If a man has destroyed the eye of another free man, his own eye shall be destroyed" is a law found in which document?
The U.S. Constitution
Hammurabi's Code
The Magna Carta
Which theory about the origins of government holds that government was first imposed by force?
Evolution Theory
Divine Right Theory
Force Theory
Social Contract Theory
Which thinker/writer is associated with the social contract theory of government?
Karl Marx
Max Weber
Aristotle
John Locke
The ability to control the actions of others is known as . . .
Power
Legitimacy
Independence
Bureaucracy
Which of the following is a defining characteristic of a nation-state?
It has a flag.
Members of its population all speak the same language.
It has a government, defined territory, and population.
It has elections.
True or false: Human societies have always been organized into nation-states.
True
False
What theory of government argues that power is held by a small group of people?
Pluralist Theory
Elite Theory
Democratic Theory
Socialist Theory
Which writer/thinker argued that those who control the "means of production" have the most power in government?
John Locke
Aristotle
Karl Marx
Thomas Hobbes
What is the type of government in which citizens have political power?
Democracy
Autocracy
Totalitarianism
Oligarchy
What is the name for the form of government where power is held by one person?
Oligarchy
Republic
Democracy
Autocracy
Which of the following is not one of the eight tenets of American democracy?
Individual freedom
Divine Right Theory
Limited government
Majority Rule
What is the term for a government in which the legislature and the executive are distinct and separate and check each other's power?
Presidential government
Parliamentary Government
Oligarchy
Confederate government
What is the term for a government where power is carefully divided between a central government and several regional or provincial governments?
Unified or central government
Confederate government
Federal government
Republican government
