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Honors Government Chapter 1 Test Question and answers already passed 2023/2024What are the four characteristics of a state? - correct answer population, territory, sovereignty, and government population - correct answer the people who live in a state territory - correct answer the area within established boundaries

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Honors US government Test #1-solved *Government Systems * - ANSWER Oligarchy - ANSWER A form of government in which the power to rule is held by a *small group*, usually self-appointed elite. Ex. China Democracy - ANSWER A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them *citizens govern themselves* autocracy - ANSWER A form of government in which a single individual rules Ex. dictatorship or monarchy *Economies* - ANSWER ...

Honors U.S Government Test #1 Q #2Federalism - correct answer This unique form of government, created by the United States in 1787 during the Constitutional Convention, is derived from the Latin word "foedus" which meant a treaty, league, union, or alliance. "Federal Government" - correct answer did not have complete sovereignty. It shared sovereignty with the states. Use of the word and creation of the system resulted - correct answer from the reluctance of most Americans to cede all ...

Honors US government Test #1-solved

Honors US government Test #1-solved

Honors Government Test - Chapter 4 - Federalism (Ivkovich) Question and answers correctly solved 2023/2024state powers - correct answer In 1787, the Framers wanted to create a new government that would be strong enough to meet the nation's needs, but would also preserve that ___________________ _____________________. 1. each government has own power in its own territorial bases 2. each level of government has its own powers (at state and local levels) 3. federalism is implied in 10th amend...

Honors Government: Test 1According to the Social Contract Theorists, what are the purposes and limits of the Government? - correct answer To form a society and protect peoples natural rights. The people and their natural rights will limit the government According to the Social Contract Theorists, why should you obey the state? - correct answer They are working to protect your natural rights Why would Locke argue that man would want to leave the state of nature? - correct answer The state o...

The idea that government should be restricted in its lawful uses of power and hence in its ability to deprive people of their liberty is expressed by the term ___. - ANSWER limited government The European philosopher whose concept of natural rights had a great impact on American politics is ___. - ANSWER John Locke President John Adams publicly indicated that the Constitution was designed for a ___. - ANSWER governing elite The words of the Declaration of Independence reflected Locke's p...

Unit 2 Honors Government Test Review Question and answers 100% correct 2023/2024Voter Expansion - correct answer Worksheet #1 Suffrage - correct answer The legal right to vote, extended to African Americans by the Fifteenth Amendment, to women by the Nineteenth Amendment, and to people over the age of 18 by the Twenty-Sixth Amendment. Electorate - correct answer All the people in a country or area who are entitled to vote in an election. Poll Tax - correct answer A tax of a fixed amount...