Gov. Ch. 1

What branch of the national government makes laws?

• legislative
• executive
• judicial
• state

What is the name for an institution through which a society makes and enforces public policies?

• state
• Congress
• government
• executive branch

What branch of the national government enforces laws?

• judicial
• state
• legislative
• executive

Another name for public policies.

• states
• laws
• rules
• ideas

In this classification of government, power is held by a small group of self-appointed leaders.

• oligarchy

• democracy
• autocracy
• unitary

In this form of government, the people are the source of political power.

• dictatorship
• federal
• democracy
• confederate

What branch of the national government has the power to interpret the law?

• executive
• legislative
• state
• judicial

Someone with certain rights and responsibilities within the state is referred to as which of the following?

• president
• Cabinet member
• Congressman
• citizen

Which of the following is NOT one of the elements of a state?

• land
• government
• population
• shelter

The individual 50 states lack which basic characteristic of a state?

• land
• sovereignty
• government
• population