Intro to Gov

Question 1

What are the 4 major purposes of Gov’t

Answer 1

1. Maintain Social Order (Laws)
2. Provide Public Services
3. National security & Defense
4. Establish and Run an Economy

Question 2

4 Things in the State

Answer 2

• People
• Territory
• Gov’t
• Sovereignty

Question 3

What is a Direct Democracy?

Answer 3

Everybody votes on issues

Question 4

What is a Representative Democracy?

Answer 4

Elected officials represent the people who vote for them aka a Republic

Question 5

4 major characteristics of a democracy

Answer 5

1. Individual Liberty
2. Majority Rule while protecting minority rights
3. Free elections with secret ballots
4. Rival political parties

Question 6

Legititimacy

Answer 6

The popular acceptance of a gov’t’s authority (trust)

Question 7

What is an institution through which society makes and enforces its public policies

Answer 7

Gov’t

Question 8

What is the study of human efforts to satisfy seemingly unlimited wants/needs through the use of limited resources-how resources are distributed

Answer 8

Economics

Question 9

What’s an Autocracy

Answer 9

Rule by one

Question 10

What’s an Oligarchy?

Answer 10

Rule by few

Question 11

What’s a Democracy

Answer 11

Rule by many

Question 12

what are the 3 types of gov’t according to geographic distribution of power?

Answer 12

Unitary, Confederation, Federal

Question 13

What is it when all power is concentrated in one, centralized location.
Think strong federal gov’t

Answer 13

Unitary Gov’t

Question 14

What is it called what power is distributed among a body of independent, sovereign states
Think weak national, strong state gov’t

Answer 14

Confederation

Question 15

What is it called when the division of powers are between national, state, and local gov’t
Think a national gov’t strong enough to protect the public and defend liberty and the States are strong enough to maintain a degree of Sovereignty based on different needs for different religions/ locations

Answer 15

Federal Gov’t or federalism

Question 16

What are the 3 functions of economic systems?

Answer 16

1. What & How much should be produced
2. How goods and services should be produced
3. Who get the goods and services produced

Question 17

What is an Economic system based on private ownership of the “means of production” and individual economic freedom

Answer 17

Capitalism

Question 18

What are the 4 main Characteristics of Capitalism?

Answer 18

1. Private ownership of capital goods
2. Individual initiative
3. The possibility of making profits
4. Competition among businesses

Question 19

What’s Laissez Faire?

Answer 19

To let alone
gov’t should stay out of economic affairs