Government Chapter 1

This term means a state has supreme and absolute authority within its territorial boundaries.

• consensus

• sovereignty

• social contract

• democracy

This is the institution through which the state maintains social order.

• sovereignty

• republic

• politics

• government

This is NOT a theory of the origin of the state.

• divine right theory

• social contract theory

• ruler's right theory

• evolutionary theory

American colonies declared their independence based on __________.

• Aristotle's theory of the polis

• the Aztec's divine right theory

• John Locke's political writings

• consensus of the population

One of the important purposes of government is to ___________.

• provide essential services

• attack other states

• control people

• control individual household economic decisions

This plan provides the rules for government.

• constitution

• confederacy

• Preamble

• politics

This statement in the Constitution sets forth the goals and purposes to be served by the government.

• Prologue

• Preamble

• Preface

• Prelude

The United States is an example of _____________.

• a unitary government

• a federal system of government

• a confederacy

• a developing nation

Totalitarian dictatorship is a form of this type of government.

• autocracy

• oligarchy

• democracy

• republic

The United States has this form of government.

• representative democracy

• monarchy

• direct democracy

• constitutional dictatorship