American Government Ch. 1
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11 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Population | people |
| Territory | land |
| Sovereignity | a government's absolute power or authority |
| Government | maintains the order and makes rules and policies that people live by |
| The Force Theory | the state formed as a result of one groups conquest of another |
| The Evolutionary Theory | Government started from the head of a family and evolved |
| The Divine Right Theory | God created the state and that God had given those of royal birth a "divine right" to rule. |
| The Social Contract Theory | people needed rules and order, so they gave power to governments |
| Unitary Government | a centralized government in which all government powers belong to a single central agency |
| Federal Government | a government with strong central powers |
| Confederate Government | an alliance of independent states |
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