Principles of Government
What are public polices?
What are things a government decides to do such as laws.
What is a theocracy?
What is government rule/laws based on religion.
Where did the first democracy originate?
What is Greece/Athens.
What is the principle that the majority of the people will be right more often than they will be wrong, and will be right more often than will any one person or small group?
What is majority rule.
Why was Aristotle suspicious of democracy?
What is he was concerned of mob rule.
Government must exercise which three kinds of powers?
What are legislative, executive and judicial powers.
Cuba and China have what types of government?
What is communist governments?
What is an organized system in which powerful lords divide their lands among other, lesser lords?
What is Feudalism.
Voting would be considered a?
What is a responsibility of a citizen?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau is most famous for coming up with which theory?
What is Social Contract theory.
North Korea's Kim Jong Un is known as a?
What is a dictator?
How many branches of government are in a unitary type of government?
The act of being able to have utmost authority in decision making and in maintaining order is called?
What is sovereignty.
Democracy is intended to be ____________ to all people.
What is equal to all people.
Baron de Montesquieu is credited with coming up with this famous foundation structure of government?
What is separation of power or Executive, Legislative and Judicial.
What are the four main components that make up a State?
What are Territory, Population, Sovereignty, and Government. Any order is fine.
What is a confederation?
What is an alliance of independent states. Such as the European Union.
Colonial trade in the 1700's had a major influence that lead the the creation of which nation?
What is the United States.
What is an economic system characterized by the private ownership of capital goods, investments, without government directive?
What is a free enterprise system AKA Capitalism or Free market.
John Locke wrote which famous book?
What is Two Treatises of Government.
The United States government was formed by which historical theories of the origins of the state?
What is Social Contract Theory.
Why is the United States considered an Indirect Democracy (Republic) rather than a direct democracy?
What is the people pick individuals to represent them in congress/government.
What is common law?
What is legal decisions that must be made on the basis of similar decisions made in the past.
Paying taxes is what to a citizen?
What is an obligation of a citizen?
When humans decided to agree with one another to create a state what theory was formed?
What is Social Contract Theory.