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Study Guide chapter
Government
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mixed economy | a system in which the government regulates private enterprise |
| Communist state | a state whos constitution claims to follow the principles of communism |
| Federal System advantages | shares power among different levels of government while still having more centralized power |
| Social contract theory | theory that by contract, people surrender to the state the power needed to maintain order and the state, in turn, agrees to protect its citizens |
| Economic assistance | the government helps citizens in need of money or food by providing them with food stamps or controls how much landlords can charge on certain buildings |
| Political parties | group of individuals with broad common interests who organize to nominate candidates for office, win elections, conduct government, and determine public policy |
| Majority rule | what the majority of people want |
| Rule of law | no one is above the law |
| Checks and balances | each branch of the government can check and balance one another's powers |
| Sovereighnty | the supreme and absolute authority within territorial boundaries |
| leadership | the action of leading a group of people or an organization |
| Thomas Hobbes | English philosopher who believed that people surrendered their power to the state for freedom and security |
| The purpose of the Presidential veto | to check and balance the legislative branch |
| Explain how a command economy works/what are it's characteristics | the state controls factory production rates, communism |
| John Locke's definition of the social contract/examples | people have natural right and trust the governments to uphold these rights |
| List the many functions of governements | providing leadership, maintaining order, providing public services, providing national security, and providing economic security and assistance |
| If a democracy becomes an oligarchy, how would it's economy be affected? | only the people with a lot of money and power would rule, most likely leave the people in poverty to rot |
| List the differences between the goals of socialism and capitalism | Capitalism: incentives and free enterprise Socialism: governments control and distribute products |
| List examples of public services provided by the government | create schools, build sewer systems, pave roads |
| Explain what a state can do because it is a sovereign | makes its own set of laws and policies |
| List 14 principles of democracy | citizen participation, regular free and fair elections, accepting the results of elections, the rule of law, majority rule with minority rights, accountability, transparency, limited government and a bill of rights, control the abuse of power, economic fr |
| Force theory | the use of violence to lead |
| Evolutionary theory | the heads of families rule |
| Divine right theory | God given right to lead |
| List Socialist aspects of the American mixed economy | providing economic security |
| Describe what can occur in a pure capitalist system | government does not interfere with the economy, wages of workers, the prices of goods, what producers make and ways businesses make and sell products |
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