Characteristics
Every state is this
What is a sovereign state?
Three ways to classify government
What is participation, geographic distribution of power, relationship between executive and judicial branch?
Who has the power to interpret laws
Judicial Branch
Most significant political theory
What is The Social Contract Theory
Six purposes of government
What is to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty
Institution through which society makes and enforces its public policies
Direct Democracy
What is the people themselves formulate public policy at a small local level?
Power to make laws and to frame public policies
What is legislative power?
Theory that was widely accepted in much of the Western world from the 15th-18th centuries
What is the Divine Right of Kings Theory
All the things government decides to do, from health care to transportation.
What is public policies?
Land with known and recognized boundaries that a state needs in order to exist
What is territory?
Power to execute, enforce, and administer laws
What is the executive power?
One person who claimed control over an area and forced all to submit to them
What is the force theory?
The nations first constitution
What formed a more perfect union?
The people who make up a state and share the same ethnic background and language
What is a homogeneous state?
More common in early civilizations but have become more rare in modern days where legal system is based on religious law
What is theocracy
Outlines the powers of government
What is the constitution?
State developed naturally out of the early family
What is the evolutionary theory?
Government provides services to all and you can see examples everywhere
What is general welfare?
A legal entity that defines a body of people living in a territory that is organized politically and power.
What is a state?
Some people insist that the US is more properly called this
What is a republic?
Ultimate responsibility for the exercise of these powers
What is a dictator?
Population in a given territory give up as much power to a gov and promote well-being of all
What is The Social Contract Theory?
Guarantees peace among the states and at home
What is domestic tranquility