American Government Test Study Guide

What are the 5 biblical obligations of government?

Ensure justice, provide defense and public safety, provide order, address poverty, and promote moral behavior.

What are 4 obligations Christians have toward their government?

Prayer, submission, participation, and witness.

What is government?

Any system of public rule or authority

What is a monarchy?

A form of government in which a single person is the ruler

Constitutional Monarchy

The government is administered by a democratically elected parliament

What country is an example of a monarchy?

Israel

What is a dictatorship?

When a government acts without the peoples consent or input

What country is an example of a dictatorship?

Italy

What Is totalitarianism?

When a government controls every aspect of the people’s lives

What is an autocracy?

When one person rules with supreme authority

what is an oligarchy?

When an elite group rules with supreme authority

what country is an example of an oligarchy?

Germany

What is anarchy!

A state of lawlessness due to the absence or inefficiency of government

what countries an example of an anarchy?

Somalia

What kind of democracy was Rome?

Republic democracy

what kind of democracy was Athens?

Direct democracy

What is an indirect democracy?

When people elect individuals to operate the government on their behalf

what country is an example of an indirect democracy

United States

Unitary System

Governmental power reside to the central government

what country is an example of a unitary system?

France

The legislative branch is congress, which is made up by ___

House of representatives and senate

The legislative branch ___ laws

Makes

The judicial branch ___ laws

interprets

The executive branch ___ laws

enforces

The executive branch consists of ___ and ___

the president, cabinet

What country has a parliamentary system?

Canada

What two branches are linked in a parliamentary system?

legislative and executive

What marks the beginning of a democratic government in England?

The English Bill of Rights

what did the Magna Carta do and who signed it?

restored feudal rights of English barons, King John

What were two major issues, the founding fathers faced?

how to incorporate democratic ideas into the new American government and how to make a Democratic Republic work in a vast territory

What are the five democratic principles?

Majority rule, equality, liberty, compromise, and individual worth

what are three conditions needed for democracy?

Opportunity, educated society, moral responsibility

What country is an example of a confederate government?

Sweden

Who picks a Prime Minister in a parliamentary system?

The majority party