Bangor Introduction to Government

Question 1

Government where elected officials share power with a king or queen

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Constitutional Monarchy

Question 2

Government system where one person rules

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Autocracy

Question 3

The four features of states include population, territory, government, and_____?

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Sovereignty

Question 4

What would be a service provided by the state function of "maintaining social order"

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Court system

Question 5

Individuals and institutions through which policies are made and affairs of state are conducted

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Government

Question 6

Who theorized that human life in the state of nature was “nasty, brutish, and short”

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Thomas Hobbes

Question 7

What is not an official purpose of the state?

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maintaining stable alliances

Question 8

The supreme and absolute authority of a state within its territorial boundaries

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Sovereignty

Question 9

Introductory statement to the U.S. Constitution; it lays out the purpose of our government

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Preamble

Question 10

What is not a characteristic of communism?

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Promotes Economic incentive

Question 11

Education, roads, and mail delivery are all aspects of______?

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Providing public services

Question 12

Kind of government where people rule

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Democracy

Question 13

What is the economic system of the United States?

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Capitalism

Question 14

What is not a characteristic of democracy?

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Authoritarian government

Question 15

Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence was most heavily influenced by what person?

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John Locke

Question 16

Government system where a small elite rule

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Oligarchy

Question 17

A group of people united by the bonds of race, language, custom, traditions, maybe religion

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Nation

Question 18

In socialism the state controls all means of production

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False

Question 19

He believed everyone was good by nature.

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Rosseau

Question 20

According to the Declaration of Independence, where does government get its power?

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Consent of the governed

Question 21

The people of a state. No minimum or maximum number exists.

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Population

Question 22

Rights everyone is born with

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Unalienable rights

Question 23

A document that governes a governmental system

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constitution

Question 24

Based on the budget, the U.S values what function of the state?

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Providing national security

Question 25

Phrase of the Preamble that means the the government belongs to all citizens

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We the People

Question 26

What is the loose union of independent states?

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Confederacy

Question 27

What are politics?

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How decisions are made

Question 28

System of government where power is inherited from the previous ruler

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Monarchy

Question 29

Autocratic rulers are always tyrants

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False

Question 30

What is not a negative consequence/danger of capitalism?

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Competition

Question 31

Which philosopher belieived people were born a blank slate

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John Locke

Question 32

Mix power between federal government and provinces/”states”

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Federal System

Question 33

Why are states inside the United States not true to its definition?

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They lack sovereignty

Question 34

What is not considered a natural right?

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Success

Question 35

In capitalism who owns the means of production?

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The people/private buinsess

Question 36

Agreement between the government and its people. Giving up some rights for something else

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Social Contract

Question 37

What kind of government do you vote for evertything

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Direct Democracy

Question 38

A system of government in which voters hold power through elected representatives

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Republic

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