Chapter 2 Flashcards
the authority and power to control, to direct, and to rule the actions and affairs of others
government
first foundational civil ordinance
capital punishment
rules of human action or conduct
laws
discernible b all men as image-bearers of God b virtue of the work of the law written in their hearts
natural law
orders form God telling men what to do and what not to do
commandments
states how the Great Commandment is to be fufilled
Decalogue or the Ten Commandments
a Babylonian king and contemporary of the Hebrew patriarchs
Hammurabi
Sumerian law that was codified
Code of Hammurabi
a government where God rules directly
theocracy
theocracy denotes
rule by clerics
12 member council of clerics
council of guardians
supreme religious leader who is appointed for life
ayatollah
islamic law
sharia
belief that government should remove everything religious from its domain
secularism
the rule b one whose will is supreme
autocracy
people rule, either directly by popular vote or indirectly through elected representatives
democracy
rule by a single family
dynasty
system of government in which the monarch has unlimited power
absolute monarchy
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
constitutional monarchies
most outstanding constitutional monarch in world history and had the longest reigning monarch
Queen Victoria
a system of government in which the ruler acquires his power by some means other that inheritance and rules with absolute authority
dictatorship
military cabinet
junta
control all aspects of society
totalitarian
totalitarian dictatorship in which all power is vested in one ruler
facism
short for national socialism, was a form of racist fascism that dominated Germany
nazism
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.
communism
a system of government control over the economy of a nation
socialism
government, not individuals, should own or control over the economy of a nation
economic system
socialism seeks political change through legislation and government regulation
political movement
socialism maintains that the individual is unimportant when compared to the welfare of the group
social theory
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
religious faith
the people rule directly by popular vote
direct democracy
the model of democracy in modern times, and it practices a limited form of direct democracy
Switzerland
where citizens govern their local community through regular meetings and vote on important decisions
New England town meeting
the people rule indirectly through elected representatives
indirect democracy
most common form of indirect democracy today
parliamentary democracy
a form of government in which the people and their representatives are limited by a constitution
constitutional republic
our response to civil government
pray for those in authority
to respect and submit to their authority
the idea that the church and the government are to remain institutionally separate
separation of church and state
character of the american people is the
cornerstone of american goernment
