Miller Chapter 1 Test

how is free enterprise related to mixed economy?

an economy in which you have private enterprise in combination with government, regulation, and promotions is a mixed economy

what relies on supply and demand?

free enterprise

does faith play a role in majority rule?

yes

what states evolved from the family?

evolutionary theory

what limits us in our type of system?

the constitution

what is politics?

a process, while government is an institution

what system influenced the totalitarian system?

authoritarian

what is a state?

a country

how are leaders seen?

right and proper

to exist, a state must have:

population, territory, sovereignty, and political organization

if a president enforces laws, what power is he using?

executive

what type of government rests on three core ideas?

democracy

how can one classify government?

relationship between legislative and executive agencies

when one person holds all the power, it is called a …

dictatorship

what is federal government?

powers are divided between central and several local governments

who is elected by the people?

government, president

who has the power to make laws?

legislative branch

power to rule is held by a small, usually self appointed elite group

oligarchy

ordinary people can aspire to rule themselves as political equals

self government

supreme and absolute power to act within own territory, decide its own foreign and domestic policies

sovereignty

process of blending and adjusting competing views and interests

compromise

what is the social contract theory?

the people agree to submit to the authority of a state and in return, the states provide protection and support

when states have alliances, what kind of government is formed?

confederate