God created the state, and that He gave certain people the "divine right" to govern these lands.
What is Divine Theory?
100
The belief in a democracy that every citizen has value and must be treated with dignity and respect.
What is Fundamental worth and dignity of every person?
100
Rights you are born with.
What is individual rights?
200
A state must have ____ in order to have established boundaries.
What is territory
200
List and define the 3 types of geographic organizations of government.
What is unitary (centralized), federal (divison of power), and confederate (alliance of independent states).
200
The state is essentially a contract between the leader and the people.
What is Social Contract Theory?
200
To have equal opportunity and equality before the law
What is Respect for the equality of all people?
200
A process by which a society decides how power and resources are distributed within a society.
What is Politics?
300
Power to make or enforce law.
What is sovernighty
300
Characteristics of dictatorship.
What is a small group of people/one person that are not responsible to the will of the people (most common)?
300
One person or group forced all people within an area to obey their rule. It happens through war, where the strong dominated the weak.
What is Force Theory?
300
Must keep in mind the effects of all groups when voting on an issue.
What is Majority rule with minority rights?
300
What is the difference between natural and common law?
What is (in respective order), law that would govern humans living in a state of nature vs. an unwritten law that has developed over centuries from accepted ideas.
400
To keep order, provide services, and organized politically.
What is government
400
Difference between presidential and parliamentary.
What is executive and legislative is independent (presidential); legislative creates executive from itself (parliamentary)?
400
Small, separate family units or clans cooperate or "team-up" with each other to better their chances of survival.
What is Evolutionary Theory?
400
Name the following:
A) In order to manage a peaceful union among all, we must be able to do this.
B) Everyone is guaranteed this as a citizen.
What is A) Necessity of compromise B)Widest possible degree of individual freedom
400
Who are the founding fathers?
What is John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington?