Ch 1 Govt Test Review

Services that benefit all citizens and are not likely to be produced by the voluntary acts of individuals are known as

Public Goods

National sovereignty is defined as

A political entity's externally recognized right to exercise final authority over its affairs

When one person has the same chance to succeed in life as another, this is called

Equality of Opportunity

The notion that American public schools are open to all is an example of

Equality of Outcome

According to the text, the concept of order encompasses

Established ways of social behavior. Maintaining order is the oldest purpose of government

Which political philosopher inspired the phrase "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" in the Declaration of Independence?

John Locke

A government pursuing laissez-faire policies would

Keep out of all interventions in businesses or economic systems

Protection of private property is not a valid objective of government according to

Liberalism

Globalization can be seen as a threat to

National Sovereignty

A consistent set of values and beliefs about the proper purpose and scope of government is a(n)

Political Ideology

The government's role in redistributing income to promote economic equality has been a major source of debate in the United States ever since

The Great Depression

The broad, basic definition of "government" given by the text is

The legitimate use of force to control human behavior; also, the organization or agency authorized to exercise that force

Capitalism is best described as a(n)

The system of government that favors free enterprise-economic system- economic system in which production and property are privately owned, with a min. of gov. interference

Which political philosopher expressed the sentiment that life in a state of nature would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short?"

Thomas Hobbes

Critics charged that Lyndon Johnson's "war on poverty" had failed because

about 15 percent of families were still living in poverty

During the 1990s, Congress prohibited private businesses from discriminating in employment, public services, and public accommodations on the basis of physical or mental disabilities. This act creates a clash between

freedom and equality

When the authors say that we live in an era of "globalization," they mean that citizens and nations are increasingly

interdependent

​Desire to avoid potential foreign prosecution of its soldiers and desire to continue practicing the death penalty led the United States in 2002 to

withdraw from 1998 treaty creating an International Criminal Court