Lesson 1: Defining Democracy

What is meant by constitutional democracy? 

• government by representative politicians 
• required voting by law
  
• centralized governmental power 
• simple participatory democracy
  

How is democracy defined? 

• all people must be involved in politics and policy making 
• government by one person 
• government by the few 
• government by the people 

What is the term for an election in which a candidate can win by getting the most votes, even if it is less than 50 percent of the votes? 

• a runoff election 
• a plurality
  
• a recall election 
• a majority
  

Statism is the idea that the rights of the nation are supreme over the rights of the __________. 

• popular consent
  
• region 
• individual 
• community 

What is the idea that a just government must derive its powers from the people it governs called?

• equality 
• popular consent
  
• electoral politics
  
• equality of opportunity 

Governance according to the expressed preferences of the majority is known as which of the following?

• statism
  
• tyranny of the majority
  
• individual rights
  
• majority rule
  

What is the name given to the law that would govern human beings before governments existed?

• original law 
• Biblical law
  
• natural law
  
• Constitutional law 

Prior to the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment, how were senators selected? 

• by direct election
  
• by the president 
• by state governors 
• by state legislators