Preliminary Examination

SS3 Politics and Governance

I. Identification:

_________ 1. It focused on the methods and techniques used in the actual management of
state affairs by the executive, legislative and judicial branches of
government.
_________ 2. It is the systematic study of state and government.
_________ 3. A city or a sovereign state.
_________ 4. A community of persons, more or less numerous, occupying a definite
position of territory, having a government of their own to which the great
body of inhabitants render habitual obedience, and enjoying freedom from
external control.
_________ 5. The entire body of doctrines relating to origin, form, behavior and purposes of
the state.
_________ 6. The mass of population living within the state.
_________ 7. This would fit in Rizal Park.
_________ 8. The agency, through which the will of the state is formulated, expressed and
carried out.
_________ 9. The supreme power of the state to command and enforce obedience to its
will from people within its jurisdiction and to have freedom from external
control.
_________ 10. With political concept.
_________ 11. It attributes the origin of states to the enlargement of the family which
remained under the authority of the father or the mother
_________ 12.A one-man rule government.
_________ 13. The political power is exercised by a majority of people.
_________ 14. State must have been created through free by some great warriors who
imposed their will upon the weak.
_________ 15. May or may not be subject to foreign control.
_________ 16. Early must have been formed by a deliberate and voluntary compact among
the people to form a society and organize a government for their common
good.

_________ 17. The biggest state which covers a surface nearly as large Europe.
_________ 18. The ruler rules in accordance with the constitution.
_________ 19. It is one in which the powers of government are divided between two sets of
organs, one for the national affairs and the other for local affairs, each organ being supreme
within its own sphere.
_________ 20. It is one in which the state confers upon the legislative power to terminate
the tenure of office of the real executive.
_________ 21. It is one in which the control of national and local affairs is exercised by the
central or national government.

II. Enumeration

1-3 Factors which Determine the Different Forms of Government

4-5 Classification of Democracy
6-9 The Focus of Study in Public Law
10-12 Goals in the Study of Political Science
13-16 Elements of State
17-20 Four Domain of State

III. Essay (30 pts.)

Discuss the purpose and the significance of having a government.