Cset Social Science Subtest 3:
Government Questions And Answers
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Purpose of Government - ANSWER✔✔ 1. Maintain social order
2. Provide public services
3. Provide security and defense
4. Provide for the economy
Maintain Social Order - ANSWER✔✔ John Locke's (1632-1704) social contract
theory claims that people need government to maintain social order because they
have not yet discovered a way to live in groups without conflict. (Purpose of
Government)
Provide Public Services - ANSWER✔✔ Abraham Lincoln identified this purpose
of government in 1854 by saying that the government should do for a community
whatever they need to have done to promote the general welfare. (Purpose of
Government)
Provide National Security - ANSWER✔✔ Government should protect the people
against attack by other states or from threats such as terrorism. (Purpose of
Government)
Make Economic Decisions - ANSWER✔✔ Governments use their power to reduce
conflicts such as material scarcity, pass laws that shape the economic environment
of a nation, and make choices that distribute benefits and public services among
citizens. (Purpose of Government)
, Evolutionary Theory - ANSWER✔✔ State evolved from the family. The head of
the primitive family was the authority that served as the government.
Force Theory - ANSWER✔✔ Government emerged when all the people of an area
were brought under the authority of one person or group.
Divine Right Theory - ANSWER✔✔ God created the state and that God had given
those of royal birth a "divine right" to rule.
Social Contract Theory - ANSWER✔✔ The belief that the people agree to set up
rulers for certain purposes and thus have the right to resist or remove rulers who
act against those purposes. (Locke and Hobbes)
Three Major Economic Decisions - ANSWER✔✔ 1. What and how much should
be produced.
2. What goods and services should be produced.
Who gets the goods and services that are produced.
Capitalism - ANSWER✔✔ Economic system in which private citizens own and
use the factors of production in order to generate profits.
Pure Capitalism - ANSWER✔✔ 1. private ownership and control of property of
economic recourses.
2. Free enterprise.
3. Competition among businesses.
4. Freedom of choice.
5. Possibility of profits.
Government Questions And Answers
With Verified Solutions Already
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Purpose of Government - ANSWER✔✔ 1. Maintain social order
2. Provide public services
3. Provide security and defense
4. Provide for the economy
Maintain Social Order - ANSWER✔✔ John Locke's (1632-1704) social contract
theory claims that people need government to maintain social order because they
have not yet discovered a way to live in groups without conflict. (Purpose of
Government)
Provide Public Services - ANSWER✔✔ Abraham Lincoln identified this purpose
of government in 1854 by saying that the government should do for a community
whatever they need to have done to promote the general welfare. (Purpose of
Government)
Provide National Security - ANSWER✔✔ Government should protect the people
against attack by other states or from threats such as terrorism. (Purpose of
Government)
Make Economic Decisions - ANSWER✔✔ Governments use their power to reduce
conflicts such as material scarcity, pass laws that shape the economic environment
of a nation, and make choices that distribute benefits and public services among
citizens. (Purpose of Government)
, Evolutionary Theory - ANSWER✔✔ State evolved from the family. The head of
the primitive family was the authority that served as the government.
Force Theory - ANSWER✔✔ Government emerged when all the people of an area
were brought under the authority of one person or group.
Divine Right Theory - ANSWER✔✔ God created the state and that God had given
those of royal birth a "divine right" to rule.
Social Contract Theory - ANSWER✔✔ The belief that the people agree to set up
rulers for certain purposes and thus have the right to resist or remove rulers who
act against those purposes. (Locke and Hobbes)
Three Major Economic Decisions - ANSWER✔✔ 1. What and how much should
be produced.
2. What goods and services should be produced.
Who gets the goods and services that are produced.
Capitalism - ANSWER✔✔ Economic system in which private citizens own and
use the factors of production in order to generate profits.
Pure Capitalism - ANSWER✔✔ 1. private ownership and control of property of
economic recourses.
2. Free enterprise.
3. Competition among businesses.
4. Freedom of choice.
5. Possibility of profits.
