[ 175 ] Civics and Government GED ® TEST SOCIAL STUDIES FLASH REVIEW • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • The notion that a legitimate government can only function with the consent of the governed is known as popular sovereignty. Which of the following slogans from the American Revolutionary period most directly supports the notion of popular sovereignty? a. Don’t tread on me. b. A man’s house is his castle. c. No taxation without representation. d. Join or die. While Iran does have an elected president and legislature, it also has a supreme leader, the Islamic cleric Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei, who was elected by the Islamic Assembly of Experts and has ruled Iran since 1989. The Supreme Leader is the highest-ranking political and religious authority in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The type of government in Iran is best described as a(n) a. theocracy. b. oligarchy. c. dictatorship. d. democracy.