It is an institution that determines and enforces a society's laws.
What is government?
100
It is the power to make and enforce laws within their own state.
What is sovereignty?
100
It is where all the legal power is held by the national, or central, government. Japan is an example.
What is unitary system?
100
It is where independent states unite to accomplish common goals.
What is confederate system?
100
The government in a democracy works to promote the kind of equality in which all people have as much freedom as possible.
What is individual liberty?
200
A school would be considered part of the general ________ of the United States?
What is welfare?
200
The head of the primitive family was the authority that served as a government.
What is evolutionary theory?
200
It is where the power is shared among central and state levels.
What is federal system?
200
Until the early 1900s most citizens in England were ruled by this form of government.
What is Divine Right/Monarchy/Royal?
200
It has the characteristics of one person, one vote, citizens are free to help a candidate or support issues, and legal requirements to vote are kept to a minimum.
What is free/fair elections?
300
Our government tries to be a More __________ Union.
What is Perfect?
300
He came up with the Social Contract Theory.
Who is John Locke?
300
They are the 3 systems of government classified by geography.
What is unitary, federal, and confederal systems?
300
A dictatorrship in which political power and control is held by a small group.
What is an oligarchy?
300
Having fair courts and laws.
What is establish justice?
400
It includes population, territory, sovereignty, and government.
What is the essential features of a state?
400
This theory states that government emerged when all the people are taken over by military or weaponry.
What is force theory?
400
These are the 2 major types of government.
What is dictatorship and democracy?
400
It is a country in which the government's authority comes only from the people.
What is a democracy?
400
Does the US use a Presidential or Parliamentary system?
What is presidential?
500
People give up their freedom to the government for the good of the whole.
What is social contract theory?
500
The way governments are classified.
What is by those who participate?
500
In this government, a leader seeks complete control over all aspects of citizens' lives.
What is autocracy?
500
These are the 2 forms of democracy.
What is direct and indirect/representative democracy?
500
Daily Double
What is one benefit of a direct democracy and one benefit of an indirect democracy?