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What is a group of
people who are the
members or citizens of a
state?
What is population?
What are a state’s
set boundaries?
What is territory?
What is the ability to
rule absolutely within a
territory? (all states are
considered equal)
What is
sovereignty?
What is the organization
inside a state that controls
the actions and policies of
the state?
What is
government?
What are the 4
defining
characteristics of
state?
What are population, territory,
sovereignty, and government?
What is a government’s role
in regard to protecting
freedom of speech?
What is make laws?
What is the
government’s role
in maintaining a
sheriff’s
department?
What is keep order
inside the state?
What is the government’s
role in maintaining Marines,
Army, and Air Force?
What is protect the
state?
What is the
government’s role
in providing
retirement benefits
and healthcare?
What is providing services that
people need?
What are the 4 roles
of government?
What are make laws, protect
the state, keep order inside the
state, and provide services
people need?
In this theory, a person or small
group claimed control over an area
and forced all within it to submit to
that person’s or group’s rule?
What is force
theory?
In this theory, government
developed naturally out of the
family unit?
What is
evolutionary
theory?
What is the theory that the
state was created by God and
God gave the leader power
by royal birth?
What is divine
right theory?
What is the theory that by contract
people agreed to give as much
power as needed to promote the
well-being of all?
What is social contract
theory?
Which theory of the origin of the
state most strongly influenced the
formation of the government of the
United States?
What is social
contract theory?
What is the form of
government when
a king or queen
rules the country?
What is a
monarch?
What is the form of government
where one leader has absolute
control over citizens’ lives?
What is a dictatorship?
What is the form of government
where citizens hold the political
power?
What is democracy?
What is the form of
government where a
small group of
people has all the
power?
What is oligarchy?
What is the form of
government that
recognizes God or a
divine being as the
ultimate authority?
What is theocracy?
What are the 3 basic powers
held by every government?
What are judicial,
legislative, and
executive?
Which of the following is NOT an
example of a government classified
by geographic distribution of
power?
a. unitary government
b. autocratic government
c.
federal government
d. confederate government
What is autocratic
government?
. In a representative democracy, how are public
officials held responsible to the will of the people?
a. The legislative branch can remove any elected
official from office at any time.
b. The people themselves can take over public
policy by meeting in a central place to pass new
laws.
c. Voters express their approval or disapproval of
the officials' actions by casting ballots in elections.
d. A committee of judges fires any official who
fails to accurately represent the will of a
majority of voters.
What is Voters express their
approval or disapproval of the
officials' actions by casting ballots
in elections?
The prime minister of a
parliamentary government is
a. chosen by the legislature and
subject to its direct control.
b. elected by the people.
c. a self-appointed absolute ruler
d. a monarch who is a figurehead
with no real powers.
What is chosen by the legislature
and subject to its direct control?
What form of government?
Citizens in Sweden vote to propose
their own laws, undo laws passed
by legislators, and vote on the
laws.
What is direct
democracy?
Make your wager
What is the purpose of government
in the Preamble to the Constitution
that matches the below purpose of
government?
Civil Rights Acts, Voting Rights
Act, immigration reform
What is secure
blessings of
liberty?