Which of the following is an important principle of American democracy?

__________________ is a system of rule that permits citizens to play a significant part in the governmental process, usually through the election of key public officials.

A form of government in which a small group – landowners, military officers, or wealthy merchants – controls most of the governing decisions is called ___________________________.

The ideology that is said to have been behind the birth of the United States is?

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 ____________.