Government Foundations

The institution through which the state maintains social order, provides public services, and enforces decisions that are binding on all people living within the state can best be described as the _____.

• Magna Carta

• Government

• Legislature

• Monarchy

Which theory stated that those who were born into a royal family were selected by God to rule?

• Force Theory

• Social Contract Theory

• Divine Right Theory

• Evolution Theory

Any system of government in which a few people or a small group holds power is called ______.

• Democracy

• Autocracy

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

The form of government in the United States is called _______.

• Direct Democracy

• Representative Democracy

• Constitutional Democracy

• Socialistic Democracy

What type of government has ONE person with all the power?

• Democracy
• Autocracy
• Oligarchy
• Unitary

What is a type of government in which the people rule themselves?

• a tyranny

• a dictatorship

• democracy

• monarchy

Which type of government is a republic, people are elected to represent us in the decision making?

• Absolute Monarchy

• Representative Democracy

• Direct Democracy

• Anarchy

Which type of government shares power between a central government, state, and local governments?

• Federal

• Unitary

• Confederal

• Monarchy

Which theory suggests government power evolved from the family, or the head of a family?

• Force Theory

• Evolution Theory

• Social Contracy Theory

• Divine Right Theory

All of the following are principles of democracy EXCEPT

• promoting respect for the law

• recognizing the worth and dignity of each person

• providing justice without mercy

• allowing people to make choices