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1
What is a government in which voters hold sovereign power?
Nation
Oligarchy
State
Republic
2
What is
NOT
an example of the way government makes economic decisions?
Super Bowl Sunday ads
Interest Rates
Minimum wage
Taxes
3
Who was one of the first to theorize on
the social contract
?
George Washington
Thomas Hobbes
Karl Marx
Channing Tatum
4
What type of
monarchy shares powers
with legislatures and are mainly ceremonial?
Direct Monarchy
Monarchy Monarchy
Absolute Monarchy
Constitutional Monarchy
5
What type of
government owns
the basic means of production and provides social services?
Capitalism
Economics
Communism
Socialism
6
We live in a world of GLOBAL interdependence.
Probably
YEAH baby!
Ummm......
Nope
7
What is the philosophy that government should keep its hands off the economy?
Socialism
Louis Vuitton
Laissez-faire
Free market
8
A relationship between national government and smaller government is unitary or ________.
federal
solitary
monetary
democratic
9
What is an economic system in which buyers and sellers make free choices in the market place?
Communism
Command market
Laissez-faire
Free market
10
4 Theories of the origin of state: Divine Right
Power derived by birth
Power derived by mutual consent
Power derived from God/gods
Power derived by force
11
4 Theories of the origin of state: Force
Power derived by god/gods
Power derived by birth
Power derived by consent of the people
Power derived by power for a common purpose
12
Which of the following criteria reflect the quality of life of citizens?
Widespread Education
Citizen participation
All of these are criteria
Favorable economy
13
What is the statement in a constitution that sets forth the goals and purposes of government?
article
preamble
antecedent
constitution
14
Voting is an example of
politics
autocracy
global interdependence
confederacy
15
What is the effort
to control or influence
the conduct of the government?
Insanity
Socialism
Lobbying
Politics
16
What is a nation with large industries and advanced technology?
Newly-emerging nation
Democratic nation
Industrialized nation
Developing nation
17
What is the economic system in which the government controls the factors of production?
Free market
Economy economy
Mixed economy
Command economy
18
Because every state is considered sovereign, every state is _____ with respect to legal rights
Powerful
Independent
Sovereign
Equal
19
What is a nation that is only beginning to develop industrially?
Developing nation
Industrialized nation
Canada
Newly industrialized nation
20
Which system includes profits, choices, private ownership and free enterprise?
Socialism
Communism
Democracy
Capitalism
21
Whose writing greatly influenced the early colonies and their desire for independence?
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
William Shakespeare
John Locke
22
Which of the following is NOT one of the criticism of socialism?
Can lead to a dangerous dictatorship
Taxes are too high
Taxes are too low
It can stifle individual initiative
23
What is a loose union of independent states?
Provinces
Confederacy
Democracy
Country
24
Which is
NOT
an example of maintaining social order?
Education
Meat inspections
Courts
Police
25
What is the institution through which the state maintains social order and provides services?
Church
Bureaucracy
Government
Congress
26
Four Essential Features of the State: Territory
People
Land with boundaries
Cities
Nations
27
What theory states people surrender to the state and the state agrees to protect its citizens?
Social Contract
Divine Right
Evolutionary
Force
28
Four Essential Features of the State: Population
Land
Retirees
All living creatures
People
29
What is the
interpretation
and application
of the constitution
?
Constitutional law
Criminal law
Supreme Court
Gobbledygook
30
What is it when people govern themselves
by voting on issues individually
as citizens?
Direct Democracy
Capitalism
Representative Democracy
Economics
31
What do we know about autocratic governments? Why???
They are the oldest form of government
The people usually have the greatest freedom
All autocratic governments are monarchies
Most of its leaders are benevolent
32
What are the major purposes of the Constitution?
Establish basic structure of the government
Set out ideals people believe in and share
Provides supreme law of the land
All of these make sense
33
What is any system in which rule is
by the people
?
Socialism
Communism
Politics
Democracy
34
What is an economic system where the central government directs all major economic decisions?
Capitalism
Community
Socialism
Communism
35
Buyers are called consumers and sellers are called ______________.
consumers
production
users
producers
36
Which is
NOT
a characteristic of democracy?
Majority Rule with Minority rights
Individual Liberty
Free Compulsory Elections
Competing Political Parties
37
What is a plan that provides the rules for government?
Constitution
Syllabus
Bill of Rights
Preamble
38
What economic system gives
freedom of choice
and business enterprises are emphasized?
Capitalism
Oligarchy
Economics
Socialism
39
What is
NOT
an example of providing a public service?
Meat/vegetable inspection
Watching The Bachelor
Sewer
Driver's License
40
Who defended Parliament's overthrow of King James II in order to meet the citizen's needs?
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Peyton Manning
Aristotle
41
Who was one of the
first students
of government?
Thomas Hobbes
Taylor Swift
Aristotle
John Locke
42
How many articles and sections does the U.S. Constitution have?
7 articles, 21 sections
27 articles, 20 sections
100 articles, 3 sections
21 articles, 7 sections
43
What is an autocracy in which a king, queen, or emperor exercises supreme powers of government?
Arithmancy
Anarchy
Monarchy
Dictatorship
44
What is any system of government in which
a small group
hold power?
Kardashians
Oligarchy
Autocracy
Consensus
45
What is an example of providing national security?
Meat inspections
Drinking laws
Treaties with other countries
Dogcatcher
46
What type of
monarchy has complete and unlimited power
to rule their people?
Direct Monarchy
Absolute Monarchy
Dictator Monarchy
Constitutional Monarchy
47
What is the supreme and absolute authority within territorial boundaries?
Equality
Dictatorship
Sovereignty
Independence
48
Four Essential Features of the State: Sovereignty
Monarchy
Independence
Power
Control
49
In a ________, the people elect representatives to vote on behalf of their interests.
Socialist democracy
Direct Democracy
Universal democracy
Representative Democracy
50
In which type of government do people have the most freedom?
autocracy
democracy
oligarchy
dictatorship
51
What is one decision the 3 major economic systems do
NOT
make?
How should goods and services be produced
Who gets the goods and services that are produced
How much should the goods and services cost
What and how much should be produced
52
Constitutional government is
limited
government.
Maybe
False
True
HUH?
53
What is a system of government in which power & authority are in the hands of a
single person
?
Politics
Autocracy
Democracy
Oligarchy
54
4 Theories of the origin of state: Social Contract
I do what I want, government takes care of me
I got my power by forcing my will on people
I give up rights, government takes care of me
I got my power from the father and grandfather
55
What is the study of human efforts to satisfy
unlimited wants through limited resources
?
Government
Economics
Politics
Shopping
56
Which is
NOT
a main goal of
socialism
?
Distribution of wealth to the HIGHER class people
Public ownership of most land and factories
Distribution of wealth EQUALLY among people
Society's control, through the government,of major decisions
57
Totalitarian dictators and monarchs are both examples of __________.
Democracy
Autocracy
Oligarchy
Anarchy
58
What type of government gives all
key powers to the national or central
government?
Democracy
Unitary System
Economics
Federal System
59
4 Theories of the origin of state: Evolutionary Theory
Power derived from birth
Power derived by force
Power from the science of evolution
Power derived by consent of the people
60
What is an independent state of people who are united by
common bonds
such as race or language?
Nation
Oligarchy
Population
State
61
A political community that
has territory and organized government
with power to make laws?
Oklahoma
Democracy
Politics
State
62
Four Essential Features of the State: Government
Economic system
Politics
Politicians in Washington D.C.
How society maintains order
63
What type of government
divides the power
between the national and state governments?
Democracy
Federal System
Constitution
Unitary System
64
What country has the oldest written constitution still in use today?
Greece
Canada
United States
England
65
Who published his ideas in 1848 the
The Communist Manifesto
?
Marl Karx
Donald Trump
Vladimir Lenin
Karl Marx
