McG Hill Ch 1.1 Foundations of Government Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 6. ...theory; theory that government evolved from the family unit
  2. 8. one who engages in the pursuit of wisdom
  3. 9. theory that states are formed when a powerful individual or group used force, coercion, or warfare to establish control over a territory and its population, forcing them to submit to the new rule (two words)
  4. 13. ...theory; the idea that people surrender to the state the power needed to maintain order and the in turn agrees to protect its citizens (two words)
  5. 14. an institution through which leaders exercise powers to make and enforce laws affecting the people under its control
Down
  1. 1. ...theory; the idea that people are chosen by a god or gods to rule (two words)
  2. 2. a political community that occupies a definite territory and has an organized government
  3. 3. a state without government and laws
  4. 4. a group of people united by bonds of race, language, customs, tradition, and sometimes religion
  5. 5. refined the social contract theory with the belief that people have natural rights and the purpose of government was to protect those rights
  6. 7. the supreme and absolute authority with territorial boundaries
  7. 10. speculation based upon study or research
  8. 11. political community that occupies a definite territory and has an organized government
  9. 12. developer of the social contract theory