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Test Review for AP Government Quiz

(A quiz so hard you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll kiss you GPA goodbye)

  Fallacies

            Identify fallacies present in faulty arguments provided

Philosophy

            Organic thinkers (role of the state, purpose of the individual)

                        Plato and Aristotle

            Social contract thinkers (role of the state, purpose of the individual)

                        Hobbes and Locke

            Libertarian thinkers (role of the state, purpose of the individual)

                        Mill and Smith

-- Be able to answer what impact these thinkers had on modern American values and institutions

Government general

            Purpose of government

            Necessary components of government

            Principles of government

            Paradoxes of American democracy

            Autocracy, oligarchy, democracy

            Totalitarian, authoritarian, constitutional