Chapter 2

Question 1

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

Answer 1

government

Question 2

What is the source of governmental authority?

Answer 2

God

Question 3

the death penalty for murder; the first foundational civil ordinance

Answer 3

capital punishment

Question 4

What is God’s purpose for government?

Answer 4

protect the innocent by punishing the guilty

Question 5

rules of human action or conduct

Answer 5

laws

Question 6

given by God explicitly in the Holy Scripture

Answer 6

revealed law

Question 7

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

Answer 7

natural law

Question 8

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

Answer 8

commandments

Question 9

What is another name for the Ten Commandments?

Answer 9

Decalogue

Question 10

there is no “higher law,” a law of God on which man’s law must rest

Answer 10

positive law

Question 11

God has both the supreme power and right to govern all nations and their rulers.

Answer 11

sovereign

Question 12

codified Sumerian laws, named after Hammurabi, a Babylonian king

Answer 12

Code of Hammurabi

Question 13

a government where God rules directly

Answer 13

theocracy

Question 14

the belief that government should remove everything religious from its domain

Answer 14

secularism

Question 15

the rule by one whose will is supreme

Answer 15

autocracy

Question 16

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

Answer 16

democracy

Question 17

a system of government in which the monarch has unlimited power

Answer 17

absolute monarchy

Question 18

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

Answer 18

constitutional monarchy

Question 19

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

Answer 19

dictatorship

Question 20

a dictatorship that controls all aspects of society

Answer 20

totalitarian dictatorship

Question 21

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

Answer 21

fascism

Question 22

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 thought of all the citizens by means of physical and psychological force and terror

Answer 22

communism

Question 23

a system of government control over the economy of a nation

Answer 23

socialism

Question 24

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

Answer 24

constitutional republic

Question 25

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

Answer 25

separation of church and state

Question 26

What is the cornerstone of American government

Answer 26

the character of the American people

Question 27

According to William Blackstone, what are the two foundations for law?

Answer 27

revealed law, natural law

Question 28

What, according to Charles Shuman, is the price of socialism?

Answer 28

freedom