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Theories of Government Practice Test

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Whigs were Liberals who were in favour of constitutional monarchy, anti-Catholic and anti-imperialist
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What term is used to describe a situation where there are various interest groups with different goals and beliefs influencing government policy?
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Who believes in eliminating Capitalism but keeping a free market system?
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Consuls were elected each year in...?
5.
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The Greeks declared independence from the Ottoman Empire in?
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What is the term used to describe hostility or prejudice against Jews?
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What is the term used to describe cruel and oppressive rule by a government?
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Who sought to build independent communities based on socialist ideals?
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Who believes that there is no obligation to uphold the laws of the state because it requires the individual to forgo their autonomy?
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Fascism opposes which of the following?
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Who believed that government should follow the axiom, “laissez faire, laissez passer” or “let it be, leave it alone”?
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Who believed that secular arguments should appeal to “public reason”?
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Who said religion is the opium of the people?
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Who said that creating a civil state is a moral obligation all people have as rational and moral beings?
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he Thirty Years War ended with the treaties of Osnabrück and Münster, which made the?
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Who saw collective people within a nation as sovereign, and determined that they would rule through their general will?
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Adolf Hitler committed suicide on the 30th April, 1945. Why?
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The concept of the divine right of kings states that monarchs are chosen by?
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Which theorist was a utilitarian and said that legitimacy depends, not on a social contract, but on whether a law contributes to the happiness of the citizens?
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What form of government requires complete subservience to the state?
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Which American President issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed roughly three quarters of the slaves living in America at the time?
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Who stated “From each according to his means, to each according to his needs”?
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Who said that “no one can be put out of this estate and subjected to the political power of another without his own consent”?
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Who believes that there is never any justification for using non-consensual force against another person?
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Free-men who entered into feudal contracts and performed the rite of homage are often referred to as?
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Which theorist said that life in the state of nature was “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short”?
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What was the dominant social system in medieval Europe under which monarchs divided their land amongst subordinates in return for military and monetary support?
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Australia is a representative democracy.
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Who argued that the state should only regulate individual behavior where it harms the interests of others; the “harm principle”?
30.
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Alexander II of Russia was assassinated in?
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The three different schools of political thought in Europe during the early 1800s were the?
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Which of the following people was a Collectivist and believed that the means of production should be collectively owned, and that the government system should be overthrown by violent revolution?
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Who was one of the founders of Progressive Liberalism and favoured government intervention in the economy to help the underprivileged
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Who took over from Alexander III to become Czar in 1894?
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What section of the Australian Constitution prohibits the Commonwealth from enacting laws that establish any central religion, impose any religious observance and/or restrict the practice of any religion?
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The English Civil War lasted from?
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The Third Way is also known as...?
38.
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A member of a political community who enjoys the rights and assumes the duties of membership is known as?
39.
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The Nazi Party was created in?
40.
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Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazi Party murdered approximately how many Jews?
41.
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The Thirty Years War lasted from?
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Who believed that monarchy was superior to democracy, because democracy fosters destabilizing dissension among subjects?
43.
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Impossibilists oppose Fabian Socialism because it makes the current system look attractive?
44.
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Rome was a republic between?
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Who were a moderate offshoot of the Marxists, and wanted broad support for revolutionary change?
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In a theocracy, who is the ultimate head of state?
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Who are the unproductive class who will never achieve class consciousness and are of no use to the Marxist revolution?
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21st Century Socialism is a new wave of socialists govenrments in which of the following jurisdictions?
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The rich families that could trace a lineage to the founding families were know as?
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Who contends legitimacy justifies the state's exercise of coercive power and creates an obligation to obey?
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