Ch 2 - Government Under God

Question 0

Sovereign

Answer 0

Having supreme power and right to govern all nations and their rulers

Question 1

Government

Answer 1

The authority and power to control, to direct, and to rule the actions and affairs of others

Question 2

Flow of governmental authority

Answer 2

From God to human institutions to individuals responsible for ruling others within those institutions

Question 3

First foundational civil ordinance

Answer 3

Capital punishment for murder

Question 4

Gods purpose for government

Answer 4

To protect the innocent by punishing the guilty

Question 5

English jurist who wrote Commentaries on the Laws of England

Answer 5

Sir William Blackstone

Question 6

Laws

Answer 6

Rules of human action or conduct

Question 7

Revealed law

Answer 7

Laws given by god explicitly in the Holy Scripture

Question 8

Natural law

Answer 8

Laws discernible by all men as image-bearers of god

Question 9

Commandments

Answer 9

Orders from God telling men what to do and what not to do

Question 10

Positive law

Answer 10

No higher law

Question 11

Higher law

Answer 11

A law of god on which mans law must rest

Question 12

Code of Hammurabi

Answer 12

Codified Sumerian laws of Babylonian king Hammurabi

Question 13

Theocracy

Answer 13

A government where God rules directly

Question 14

Autocracy

Answer 14

Rule by one whose will is supreme

Question 15

Secularism

Answer 15

The belief that government should remove everything religious from its domain

Question 16

Democracy

Answer 16

The people rule, either directly by popular vote or indirectly thru elected representatives

Question 17

Dynasty

Answer 17

Rule by a single family

Question 18

Distinguishing feature of a monarch

Answer 18

He received his position by inheritance

Question 19

Absolute monarchy

Answer 19

A system of government in which the monarch has unlimited power

Question 20

Constitutional monarchies

Answer 20

Systems if government in which the monarchs power is limited by a constitution and is equal to or subservient to an elected representative assembly

Question 21

Dictatorship

Answer 21

Ruler does not inherit his power and rules with absolute authority

Question 22

Totalitarian

Answer 22

Controlling all aspects of society

Question 23

Fascism

Answer 23

A totalitarian dictatorship in which all power is vested in one ruler

Question 24

Communism

Answer 24

A totalitarian dictatorship by one or more persons that advocates the violent, revolutionary overthrow of the existing economic, political and social order and sets up a tyrannical state that dominates the person, property, and thoughts of all citizens by means of physical and psychological force and terror.

Question 25

Socialism

Answer 25

A system of government control over a nations economy.

Question 26

Socialists key tenet

Answer 26

Government, not individuals, should control a country’s resources and it’s means of production

Question 27

The price of socialism

Answer 27

Freedom

Question 28

Direct democracy

Answer 28

The people rule directly by popular vote

Question 29

Indirect democracy

Answer 29

People rule indirectly through elected representatives

Question 30

Constitutional republic

Answer 30

The people and their representatives are limited by a constitution

Question 31

Republic

Answer 31

Voters elect others to represent them in government

Question 32

Separation of church and state

Answer 32

The church and government are to remain institutionally separate

Question 33

The cornerstone of American government

Answer 33

The character of the American people

Question 34

Greek definition of monarch

Answer 34

To rule alone

Question 35

Gods purpose for government

Answer 35

To protect the innocent by punishing the guilty