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Type of government where citizens elect leaders to represent them in government
Representative Government
God created the state and that God had given those of royal birth the right to rule.
Divine Right Theory
One person or a small group claimed control over an area and forced all within to submit to that person’s or group’s rule
Force Theory
Claims the state developed naturally out of the earliest group unit, the family.
Evolutionary Theory
People voluntarily came together and created the state for protection and cooperation.
Social Contract Theory
A government in which all the powers are held by a central agency which then gives out the remainder of the powers to local government for its own convenience.
Unitary
A government in which the power to rule is held by a small, usually self-appointed elite group
Oligarchy
A government in which the president is directly elected by the people.
Presidential
A government in which a single person holds unlimited political power
Autocracy
The supreme political authority rests with the people and the citizens themselves
Democracy
An alliance of independent states.
Confederacy
Government provides:
Provides order, prevents chaos, institution that enforces public policy
America conducts direct democracy elections
False
A network of volunteer organizations is necessary in order for a democracy to prosper.
True
In a democracy, we make decisions based on majority rule, with no limitations.
False
Slow decisions is one down-side to direct democracy
True
