Gov.1
is a plan for government.
Constitution
The idea of the ______________________________ that people have certain personal liberties and its government’s job to protect those rights.
Social Contract Theory
is one of the four characteristics of a state.
Population
Saudi Arabia has a _________________ type of government, because a King is control.
Monarchy
is meant to be a peaceful way to resolve conflicts.
Politics
a single person rules and has all of the power.
Autocracy
A small group is in control in an _____________________ type government.
Oligarchy
The _______________________________________ says that the government evolved from the family.
Evolutionary Theory
In a __________________, the people are supposed to have all of the power.
Democracy
The ________________________ splits the power between a central government and local state level governments.
Federal System
In a ________________________________, like we have in the US, voters elect others to speak for them.
Representative Democracy
is another word for the state.
Nation
Unitary
The __________________ system of government gives al key powers to the central government.
was a Greek scholar and one of the first to study government.
Aristotle
people living in the state. Stable when people share political/social beliefs. Mobile people can move so political power shifts.
Population
State has boundaries. Territory can change with war or buying land from another country.
Territory
State has the supreme power within its territorial boundaries
Sovereignty
Every state has government. Job is to maintain social order, provide services and enforce decisions.
Government
Maintain social order
Example, provides courts to resolve conflicts in an orderly fashion.
Provide public services
Example, FDA checks meat/other food to prevent selling spoiled food.
Provides National Security
Example, protection from terrorist attacks or maintaining a military.
Make Economic Decisions
Example, provides nation’s currency.
What type of government does the U.S. have.
Democracy
name the four purposes of government
Maintain social order, provide public services, provides national security, make economic decisions
name the four characteristics of a state
population, territory, sovereignty, government