Unit 1 Vocabulary

The process of influencing the actions and policies of government.

• government

• politics

• popular sovereignty

• American Political Culture

The rules and institutions that make up that system of policymaking

• democracy

• politics

• government

• social contract

A system of government where power is held by the people

• popular sovereignty

• democracy

• social contract

• natural rights

Natural rights is the right to... (which the government cannot take away)

• life, love, and property

• liberty, property, and wealth

• life, liberty, and property

• life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness

People allow their governments to rule over them to ensure an orderly and functioning society.

• natural rights

• popular sovereignty

• social contract

• republicanism

In the United States, most Americans share a set of beliefs, customs, and values called

• American democratic culture

• American political culture

• Maverick culture

• American union culture

The idea of popular sovereignty is that the government's right to rule comes from the ________________.

• representatives

• president

• supreme court

• people

A system in which the government's authority comes from the people is called

• republicanism

• social contract

• democracy

• communism

Inalienable rights are...

• rights that government can take away

• rights that the government can alter

• rights that the government cannot take away

• rights that only people can change

Social, political, and economic freedoms are known as

• inalienable rights

• liberty

• democracy

• don't tread on me