Powers
The definition of powers of government.
What is Power is the ability to command or prevent action, the ability to achieve a desired end?
Characteristics of a state.
What is population, territory, sovereignty, and government?
Origins of government.
What is how government were created?
The purpose of government.
What is to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general warfare, secure the blessings of liberty.
Classifying the type of government.
What is who can participate in the government process, the geographic distribution of governmental power within the state, and the relationship between the legislative and executive branches of the government.
Every government has and exercises three basic kinds of power:
What is legislative, executive, and judicial power?
Population
What is all the inhabitants of a particular town, area, or country?
The Force Theory
What is the state was born by force?
A more perfect union
What is a firm league of friendship?
Democracy
What is supreme political authority rests with the people?
Legislative power
What is the power to make laws and to frame public policies?
Territory
What is an area of land under the jurisdiction of a ruler or state?
The Evolutionary Theory
What is the state developed naturally out of the early family?
Justice
What is the law, in both its content and its administration, must be reasonable, fair, and impartial?
Republic
What is the political power is held by representatives chosen by and held responsible to the citizens?
Executive power
What is the power to execute, enforce, and administer laws?
Sovereignty
What is supreme power or authority?
The Divine Right of Kings Theory
What is that God created the state and that God had given those of royal birth a "divine right" to rule.
Domestic Tranquility
What is order?
Dictatorship
What is those who rule cannot be held responsible to the will of the people.
Judicial power
What is the power to interpret laws, to determine their meaning, and to settle disputes that arise within the society?
Government
What is the authority of a nation, state, or community?
The Social Contract Theory
What is that which people could take by force belonged to them.
Common Defense
What is the security of the state?
Theocracy
What is the legal system of a state is based on religious law?