U.S. Government Unit 1 Formative

Power to create and pass laws

• Executive Power

• Legislative Power

• Judicial Power

• Power of the Purse

Power to carry out and enforce laws

• Executive Power

• Judicial Power

• Legislative Power

• Filibuster Power

Government power rests with the local governments and not with the central government, which holds few powers

• Unitary Government

• Executive Government

• Confederate Government

• Federal Government

Purpose of government from the Preamble: Government needs to join the states together because in unity there is strength.

• Establish Justice

• Form a More Perfect Union

• Provide for the Common Defense

• Secure the Blessings of Liberty

Which one of these matches up with the purpose of government: Insure Domestic Tranquility

• Provide services for the benefit of all or most citizens

• Making sure that laws are reasonable, fair and impartial in their passage and administration.

• Making sure that their is peace within the country of the United States

• Providing for our defense against foreign enemies

The discussion or negation about what government should do is called what?

• Politics

• Government

• Public Policy

• Federalism

All the things that government decides to do is known as:

• Public Policy

• Politics

• the Social Contract

• Sovereignty

Territory, Population, Government and Sovereignty are what is necessary to be called a:

• Social Contract

• Federal System

• State

• Confederate System

People are born free, but give up some freedom to enjoy the safety and security of ourselves and our property by society and a government. People are the ultimate source of power that a government has. This matches up with which theory of the Statte?

• Force Theory

• Evolutionary Theory

• Divine Right Theory

• Social Contract Theory

The United Kingdom and China have governments in which the Central Government holds most of the power and local governments hold little to no power. What is the term for this kind of government?

• Unitary

• Federal

• Confederate

• Dictatorship