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Characteristics
The State
Foundations of Democracy
Economics
Theories of Government
100
This is the institution through which a society makes and enforces public policies.
What is Government?
100
This is another word for the STATE.
What is nation or country?
100
In a democracy, the people are generally governed by ideal or form of rule.
What is majority rule?
100
This is another name for the free enterprise system.
What is capitalism?
100
This theory of government is based upon the family unit.
What is Evolutionary Theory?
200
This branch has the power to make law and frame public policy.
What is Legislative Branch?
200
This characteristic of a state includes the people living in that area
What is population?
200
Jefferson stated that all men are created...
What is equal?
200
This law states that when goods are plentiful, the prices tend to drop.
What is the law of supply and demand?
200
This theory is based upon the concept of a person or group making others submit to them.
What is Force Theory?
300
This branch has the power to execute, enforce and administer the law.
What is Executive Branch?
300
This is another term for "recognized boundaries and land.
What is territory?
300
The United States has this form of government.
What is representative democracy?
300
This type of economy exists when some degree of government regulation combines with private enterprise.
What is a mixed economy?
300
This theory is based upon the belief that the right to rule came from God.
What is the Divine Right Theory?
400
This branch has the power to interpret laws and determine their meaning.
What is Judicial Branch?
400
THis is another name for the people in a state.
What is population?
400
Identify one element that is needed in order for a democracy to prosper.
What is (choice) a social consensus, an educated public, a civil society, or free enterprise?
400
In this type of economy, the government controls the means of production.
What is a command economy?
400
This theory is based upon an exchange of promises between the people and their government.
What is Social Contract Theory?
500
Hobbes's theory based on the idea that government is based upon an exchange of promises.
What is "Social Contract Theory"?
500
Every state has this - supreme and absolute power within its own territory.
What is Sovereignty?
500
The Bill of Rights was intended to grant protection to this entity from "mob rule."
What is the individual and/or minority?
500
A "hands off" economic policy is also known as this.
What is a "laissez faire" policy?
500
This English philosopher stated that government is necessary to avoid the war of man against man.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?