Chapter 2

Question 1

government

Answer 1

the authority/power to control and rule others

Question 2

sovereign

Answer 2

having both the power and the right to govern (God)

Question 3

Decalogue

Answer 3

Ten Commandments

Question 4

revealed law

Answer 4

given by God explicitly in the Bible

Question 5

natural law

Answer 5

given by God, the work of the law written in man’s heart.

Question 6

positive law

Answer 6

“obey the law because man made it,” not because there is a higher law that requires it.

Question 7

theocracy

Answer 7

government where God rules directly (early Israel), but now to generally mean “rule by clerics.” (ex, Iran).

Question 8

autocracy vs democracy

Answer 8

rule by one person vs rule by many

Question 9

Autocracy: dynasty, monarchy, absolute monarchy

Answer 9

dynasties are the rule by a single family; monarchies receive power by inheritance.

Question 10

constitutional monarchy system of government

Answer 10

monarch’s power limited by a constitution (e.g., Great Britain, Netherlands)

Question 11

dictatorship as system of government

Answer 11

a ruler with absolute authority, though uninherited (e.g., Franco of Spain)

Question 12

totalitarian dictatorship

Answer 12

ruler with absolute authority and controlling all aspects of society (e.g., Fascism one example)

Question 13

two types of national socialism

Answer 13

Fascism and Nazism

Question 14

Nazism

Answer 14

racist fascism

Question 15

Communism

Answer 15

totalitarian dictatorship that controls citizens’ property and thought.

Question 16

Socialism

Answer 16

government control over a nation’s economy (it is a system of government, not a FORM of government)

Question 17

direct democracy

Answer 17

people rule directly by popular vote (e.g., Switzerland)

Question 18

indirect democracy

Answer 18

people rule indirectly through elected representatives (e.g. British parliamentary democracy or America’s democratic republic)

Question 19

constitutional republic

Answer 19

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

Question 20

separation of church and state

Answer 20

the idea that the church and government are to be institutionally separate (to avoid a national church)