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Chapter 2 Flashcards

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

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government

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first foundational civil ordinance

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capital punishment

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rules of human action or conduct

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laws

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discernible b all men as image-bearers of God b virtue of the work of the law written in their hearts

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natural law

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orders form God telling men what to do and what not to do

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commandments

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states how the Great Commandment is to be fufilled

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Decalogue or the Ten Commandments

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a Babylonian king and contemporary of the Hebrew patriarchs

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Hammurabi

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Sumerian law that was codified

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Code of Hammurabi

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a government where God rules directly

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theocracy

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theocracy denotes

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rule by clerics

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12 member council of clerics

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council of guardians

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supreme religious leader who is appointed for life

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ayatollah

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islamic law

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sharia

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belief that government should remove everything religious from its domain

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secularism

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the rule b one whose will is supreme

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autocracy

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

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democracy

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rule by a single family

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dynasty

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system of government in which the monarch has unlimited power

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absolute monarchy

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systems of government in which the monarch’s power is limited by a constitution and is equal to or subservient to an elected representative assembly

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constitutional monarchies

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most outstanding constitutional monarch in world history and had the longest reigning monarch

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Queen Victoria

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a system of government in which the ruler acquires his power by some means other that inheritance and rules with absolute authority

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dictatorship

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military cabinet

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junta

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control all aspects of society

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totalitarian

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totalitarian dictatorship in which all power is vested in one ruler

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facism

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short for national socialism, was a form of racist fascism that dominated Germany

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nazism

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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 dominated the person, property, and thoughts of all the citizens by means of physical and psychological force and terror.

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communism

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a system of government control over the economy of a nation

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socialism

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government, not individuals, should own or control over the economy of a nation

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economic system

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socialism seeks political change through legislation and government regulation

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political movement

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socialism maintains that the individual is unimportant when compared to the welfare of the group

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social theory

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socialism insists that man is basically good but has been corrupted by society and that man’s goodness will express itself if he is given the right environment

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religious faith

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the people rule directly by popular vote

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direct democracy

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the model of democracy in modern times, and it practices a limited form of direct democracy

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Switzerland

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where citizens govern their local community through regular meetings and vote on important decisions

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New England town meeting

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the people rule indirectly through elected representatives

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indirect democracy

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most common form of indirect democracy today

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parliamentary democracy

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a form of government in which the people and their representatives are limited by a constitution

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constitutional republic

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our response to civil government

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pray for those in authority

to respect and submit to their authority

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the idea that the church and the government are to remain institutionally separate

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separation of church and state

40
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character of the american people is the

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cornerstone of american goernment

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