Is made up of the formal institutions and processes through which decisions are made for a group of people.
What is government?
100
Form of rule in which one person or a small group of people holds unlimied power over government.
What is a dictatorship?
100
A democracy in which people elect representatives to make decisions on their behalf.
What is a republic?
100
Function of government that is most concerned with protecting a nation's people from external threats.
What is ensuring national security?
100
Theory that states that a ruler's power stems directly from the will of God.
What is the Divine Right Theory?
200
Government under the rule of a small group of religious leaders.
What is a Theocracy?
200
System of government that divides power between a national government and smaller regional levels of government.
What is the Federal System?
200
Government ruled by a monarch whose power is limited by law.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
200
_______allows people and businesses to make their own economic choices about how to produce, distribute, and exchange goods and services with limited government interference.
What is free enterprise?
200
This theory holds that the first governments formed as a result of people agreeing among themselves to submit to the authority of a state.
What is social contract theory?
300
This is the supreme power of a state to act within its territory and have absolute authority over its internal and external affairs.
What is sovereignty?
300
This is a central virtue of free enterprise.
What is competition?
300
When two opposing sides come together and agree on an issue.
What is to compromise?
300
The core_____of American democracy are liberty, equality, and self-government.
What are ideals?
300
A democracy in which the people assemble to make major government decisions by a majority vote.
What is direct democracy?
400
According to John Locke, this is why people enter into a social contract.
What is to protect their natural rights?
400
Argued in Leviathan that the state was powerful becaus it represented the collective power given up by the people.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
400
This is another name for the term "general welfare."
What is public good?
400
We must have this for American democracy to thrive and it is necessary at all levels of government.
What is active citizen participation?
400
This philosopher noted that any violation of the people's natural rights by government provided grounds for rebellion.
Who is John Locke?
500
According to the ______ leaders must act according to the law or be held accountable when they do not.
What is rule of law?
500
Government that tightly controls all aspects of life--political, social, and economic.
What is totalitarian government?
500
_______are th political rights held by groups of people who make up less than half of th population.
What are minority rights?
500
System of government in which power rests in a single, national government.
What is a unitary system?
500
In his book Democracy in America, French aristocrat_____ explored the meaning of equality in American culture.