Quiz - 1.1 Foundation Basics

What are the four most basic characteristics of any government?

• Power, Authority, Legitimacy, Sovereignty

• Power, Ability, Legitimacy, Control

• Power, Authority, Laws, Society,

• Legitimacy, Democracy, Power, Control

What is the ability to get people to behave in certain ways even when they don't want to?

• Authority

• Power

• Legitimacy

• Sovereignty

To learn more about the relationship with a government, its laws, and its society, it is most help to study the ​ (a)   of PALS.

• how
• what
• power
• authority
• legitimacy

What were the ideas about that were being discussed by political philosophers in Western Europe, which then influenced America's political philosophy?

• Individual rights and liberties

• Reason and logic

• Natural law and divine law

• Monarchies and dictatorships

Which of the following is an example of having power but not legitimacy?

• A dictator who seizes control through a violent overthrow then executes their rivals

• A king who inherits the throne from this ancestors

• A president elected by the people

• A religious leader established by divine right

Why is it important to study political philosophy?

(Select all that apply)

• To study the balance between reason and logic

• To find ways to address societal problems

• To analyze how PALS is or should be carried out

• To determine if a government is leading correctly

• To determine if a government is better than another

The study of ideas about what kind of relationship people should have to their society and government is:

• government

• law

• political philosophy

• the Enlightenment

Match the vocabulary word with its definition

• power

• the study of ideas about what kind of relationship people should

  have to their society and government

• authority

• a society’s belief that their ruler or government has

  the right to rule

• sovereignty

• the supreme and ultimate power or authority within

  a territory

• legitimacy

• The ability to get people to behave in certain ways even when

  people don’t want to behave in those ways is called

• political philosophy

• the right to rule

The political institutions, laws, and customs through which the function of governing is carried out is know as:

• law

• society

• government

• PALS

Rules and regulations made and enforced by government in order to prevent or resolve conflict are:

• sovereign

• laws

• government

• political philosophy