Foundations of US Government Quiz Review

What is the institution through which a society makes and enforces its public policies?

• Judicial power

• Executive power

• Government

• Legislative power

Which type of government is a form where supreme authority rests with the people?

• Democracy

• Dictatorship

• Oligarchy

• Monarchy

What is the power to interpret laws, determine their meaning, and settle disputes that arise within the society?

• Executive power

• Judicial power

• Legislative power

• Divine right

Which philosopher developed the social contract theory in the 17th and 18th centuries?

• Rousseau

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Aristotle

What is the type of government in which a single person holds unlimited power?

• Monarchy

• Autocracy

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

Which document established that the power of the monarchy was not absolute and guaranteed trial by jury and due process of the law to nobility?

• English Bill of Rights

• The Mayflower Compact

• Magna Carta

• The Social Contract

Who wrote about natural rights of man, the social contract, and the separation of church and state?

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Aristotle

• Rousseau

What is the basic principle of American government which states that government is restricted in what it may do?

• Limited government

• Popular sovereignty

• Natural rights

• Unalienable rights

Which type of government is a system of shared power in which the executive and legislative branches have separate powers?

• Federal government

• Presidential government

• Confederate government

• Parliamentary government

What is the concept that a government exists only with the consent of the governed?

• Unalienable rights

• Limited government

• Natural rights

• Popular sovereignty