The governmental system of the United States can best be described as _________________________.

A term used to describe no government is ____________________.

The United States is considered to be a part of __________________.

Government affects our lives through which of the following?

_______________ was an English philosopher who wrote The Leviathan.  He argued that man had a natural right to life but that right to life could not be protected in a state of anarchy because man would return to his natural state which was war.  Therefore, a strong central executive government (which in his day meant an absolutist monarch) was needed to overpower everybody and force everybody to obey its laws in order to bring the law and order and peace and stability that was needed in order for the individual’s right to life to be preserved.

The growth in Texas’s population poses challenges for Texas such as ____________.

_________________ was an English philosopher whose works were highly read by many of the founding fathers and highly influenced many of their beliefs, especially Thomas Jefferson.   His Two Treatises on Government were known as his masterpieces with the second one being the more notable one.  He is known as the father of liberalism because he argued that there is a natural law that dictates that all human beings are born with natural rights (life, liberty, and property) and that governments should derive their consent from the governed.  Many say the intro to the Declaration of Independence is basically a plagiarism of his beliefs.

A system of rule in which formal and effective limits are placed on the powers of the government is referred to as ___________________________________.

A system of rule in which the government recognizes no formal limits on its power and seeks to absorb or eliminate other social institutions that might challenge it is known as ___________.

A system of rule in which the government recognizes no formal limits but may nevertheless be restrained by the power of other social institutions is known as ________________.