Government Terms and Concepts Quiz

A political community that occupies a definite territory and has an organized government with the power to make and enforce laws without approval from any higher authority.

Any sizable group of people who are united by common bonds of race, language, custom, tradition, and sometimes religion.

One of the first students in government.

<p>Colonial era.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Population, territory, sovereignty, government.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Agreement about basic beliefs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The state has supreme and absolute authority within its territorial boundaries.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Complete independence, complete power to make laws, shape foreign policy, and determine its own course of action.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An institution through which the state maintains social order, provides public services, and enforces decisions that are binding on all people living within the state.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Divine right theory.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Government emerged when all the people of an area were brought under the authority of one person or group.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Maintains social order, provides public services, provides national security and common defense, and controls the economic system.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The idea that everyone was in a triangle: rulers --&gt; warriors --&gt; workers, and had an absolute obligation to obey the government.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Believed that it was a protection for the state of nature when no government existed between human beings.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All citizens have a right to life, liberty, and property.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A system of government ruled by one person with absolute power.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state typically through elected representatives.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A form of democracy in which people decide policy initiatives directly.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>People vote for representatives who then decide policy initiatives.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A system of government based on popular sovereignty in which the structures, powers, and limits of government are set forth in a constitution.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, typically led by an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A form of government that subordinates all aspects of its citizens' lives to the authority of the state, with a single charismatic leader as the ultimate authority.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A form of government based on the principle of requiring obedience to the authority of one person or small group.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dictatorship.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Representative democracy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A small group of people.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The principle that the authority of the government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because that is the only way to really know what people want.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Maintains social order, provides public services, and ensures national security.</p> Signup and view all the answers