Chapter 1 Test Review

Divides power between a national government and smaller regional governments

Formal institutions and processes through which decisions are made for a group of people.

The people elect representatives to make decisions on their behalf

Ensuring world security is a basic function of government.

Eminent Domain would be used to buy a famers field to build a new highway.

Rule in which one person or a small group of people can hold unlimited power over government

An oligarchy is run by who?

Sovereignty rests in a single, national government with ultimate authority

Supreme power to act within its territory and control its external affairs

Rulers are seen as right and proper by important segments of a nation’s population.

"All men are created equal" reflects the Founders commitment to which principle?

Any decision made by government in a pursuit of a particular goal

Which is not one of the main components of government?

Rule by a few, an aristocracy

In a presidential system, the president is in charge of the ____________.

The U.S. federal system consists of a national government and what other governmental level?

Which is not an ideal of the US?

The people are the ultimate source of authority in which governmental system?

Citizens meet regularly to discuss issues and vote for leaders

Conception of something in its most perfect form.

System that has a head of state that leads the executive branch separate from other branches

The belief that ordinary people could aspire to rule themselves and do so as political equals

Independent states join forces in a central government

Maintaining clean water is a public good.

Freedom

Divine Right means I get my power from god.

Who has the power in self government?

First governments formed in result of people agreeing to submit to the authority of the state.

When people protest that is civic participation.

Equality: inherently people deserve fair treatment under the law.

Political unit with the power to enforce laws over a group living within a defined territory

The government should do what in a free enterprise system?

In this system the executive and legislative branches are combined

The process the government uses to make decisions.

During the Civil War the South was a _________ system.

Which is not a Principle of the US government?

This made the king answerable only to God

Basic principle of democracy that decisions are made getting more than half of the votes cast.

Which is not a Principle of the US government?

Liberal Democracies protects the individual rights of who?

Population and sovereignty are parts of a state.

What does an authoritarian regime become at its most extreme?

Econ system where business is free to engage in econ activity with a min of gov interference

Power is the governments authority to get things done.

In a Confederal System the Federal government has powers _____.

Eminent domain would be used to take my house to provide money for government salaries.

Do you believe America has a balance between Majority Rule and Minority Rights?

If I didn't vote for President Biden I still have rights in the US because of what?

Government headed by one person, such as a king or queen, who exercises supreme authority

Helping a local mechanics shop expand is a public good.