Chapter 3

Question 1

How do a pure democracy and a republic differ?

Answer 1

pure democracy deals directly with the public by gatherings to talk about the current government. A republic government also is governed by the people but instead of everyone talking together, the people choose representatives on their behalf.

Question 2

What three categories do scholars use to classify governments

Answer 2

The system of government that are used, the relationship between the levels of the governments, methods of electing the executive

Question 3

On what do dictatorships rely for power?

Answer 3

Fear and military power

Question 4

Which types of government described in this section best describe the United States?

Answer 4

Democratic republic , federalism, presidential system.

Question 5

Who chooses the executive head in the parliamentary system?

Answer 5

The majority party in the legislature appoints the executive head

Question 6

List the three levels of American government.

Answer 6

National, state, and local

Question 7

List the three branches of the national government.

Answer 7

Legislative, executive, and judicial

Question 8

What powers are reserved to the states

Answer 8

Powers not delegated to the national government or prohibited to the states.

Question 9

What are the responsibilities of the national government?

Answer 9

Legislative - makes the laws
Executive- enforces the laws
Judicial- interpret the laws

Question 10

What are the different levels of local government?

Answer 10

Counties and municipality

Question 11

System in which people participate

Answer 11

Popular government

Question 12

When people directly affect the governments policies and actions

Answer 12

Direct democracy

Question 13

When the supreme power rests in people and their elected representatives or offices

Answer 13

Republic

Question 14

When the people elect their peers to operate the government on their behalf

Answer 14

Indirect democracy

Question 15

When the governments acts without the people’s consent or input

Answer 15

Dictatorship

Question 16

When absolute power which resides in the ruling class

Answer 16

Totalitarianism

Question 17

Ruled by one person

Answer 17

Autocracy

Question 18

Elite group of rulers

Answer 18

Oligarchy

Question 19

An absence of government

Answer 19

Anarchy

Question 20

When the government resides on the center also government. It also receives its power by people. What country represents this

Answer 20

Unitary system, France

Question 21

Divides a nations power national, region, and local government . What country represents this

Answer 21

Federalism, United States

Question 22

When regional governments retain supreme delegated few tasks to the national governments. What country

Answer 22

Confederate government. EU

Question 23

When the People directly elect the president.

Answer 23

Presidential system

Question 24

When the legislative has separates houses

Answer 24

Bicameral

Question 25

When the legislative is made up of one house

Answer 25

Unicameral

Question 26

When the executive and legislative branches are inseparably linked

Answer 26

Parliamentary system

Question 27

The chief officer of the executive branch

Answer 27

Governor

Question 28

Powers given to the national government by the Constitution that define the limits of its authority

Answer 28

Delegated powers

Question 29

A political subdivision of a county

Answer 29

Townships

Question 30

At the federal level, the legislative branch of American government

Answer 30

Congress

Question 31

independent of the city and county, especially established to provide government functions on the local level

Answer 31

Special districts

Question 32

The lower house in Congress, representation is based on state population

Answer 32

House of Representatives

Question 33

Process by which a state establishes a city as a legal government body by giving it a charter establishing the parameters in which it can operate

Answer 33

Incorporation

Question 34

Higher house in Congress; representation is equal for each state

Answer 34

Senate

Question 35

A document that establishes a city’s name and serves as its constitution

Answer 35

Charter

Question 36

protects the states’ powers from federal domination in the Tenth Amendment.

Answer 36

Reserved powers

Question 37

every citizen of the United States en- joys the rights and privi- leges of citizenship.

Answer 37

The fourteenth amendment

Question 38

African American are able to vote

Answer 38

Fifteenth amendment

Question 39

Women's vote

Answer 39

Nineteenth amendment

Question 40

No poll tax

Answer 40

Twenty fourth amendment

Question 41

Voting age to eighteen

Answer 41

Twenty sixth amendment