Characteristics of a State
The people or citizens
What is Population
This theory asserts that a monarch is subject to no earthly authority, deriving his right to rule directly from the will of God.
What is Divine Right Theory/Divine Right of Kings
Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard
What is to provide protection for a state
Another name for a country
What is Nation-State
Unitary system, Dictatorship, Kim Jung Un, Vladimir Putin, or Autocracy
What is Thomas Hobbes interpretation of a leader in a state of nature.
The boundaries or area in which a state is in
What is Territory
This theory of government involves one group of people entering into an area and making everyone else within that territory submit to the new government and social system
Force Theory
System of Government that concentrates power at the central/federal level...remember the big circle in the middle
What is Unitary System
People surrendered their freedom to the state in exchange for the state preserving their natural rights
What is Social Contract
John Locke believed that people enter into a state of nature in this way
What is cooperative, naturally fair, and mostly civil (Answer will vary and may be similar)
The organization inside a state that controls actions and laws with the territory
What is Government
Theory of government that originated during the Age of Enlightenment and usually concerns the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual...at least there is one thing Locke and Hobbes agreed on.
Social Contract Theory
System of government that concentrates the majority of power at the state level...European Union
What is confederate
A framework, plan, or set of laws for a government
What is Constitution
Locke believes we are all born with what
What are unalienable rights (life, liberty, and property)
A body of people living in a defined space with the power to make and enforce laws and an organization to do this.
What is a State
Theory of government that is developed through family lineage
What is Evolutionary Theory
Identify the purpose of government explained in this scenario...
According to the Social Contract Theory government provides alternatives for people and organizations to resolve conflict.
What is Maintaining Social Order
Canada, France, U.S., Australia, and Japan are these types of nations because they are technologically advanced and provide a comfortable way of living
What is Industrialized Nations
Hobbes believes that men, in their state of nature are what
Poor, nasty, brutish, solitary, and mean (Answers will vary)
The ability to rule absolutely within a territory...hopefully the ruler is 18 years old
What is Sovereignty
Thanks to a couple of Enlightenment thinkers...hint...hint we use this theory of government in the United States.
John Locke's Social Contract Theory
System of government that distributes power among the federal and state levels. This system is utilized in the United States
Federal System of government
The major goals of the U.S. Constitution are laid out in the beginning.
What is the preamble
This U.S. President stole Locke's ideas of unalienable rights and embedded them into a famous U.S. Document...The Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson (Life, Liberty, & Pursuit of Happiness)