Government Test 1 Flashcards
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Means “to rule by oneself”
autocracy
The ruler exercises unlimited authority and usually inherits his position.
Absolute Monarchy
The ruler requires power by some means other than inheritance and rules with absolute authority.
Dictatorship
The people rule directly by popular vote.
Direct Democracy
The ruler is limited by a democracy.
Constitutional Monarchy
God rules directly.
Theocracy
An economic system in which the government controls the nation’s resources and its means of production.
Socialism
A dictatorship that controls all aspects of society through coercion.
Totalitarian Dictatorship
The people and their representatives are limited by a constitution.
Constitutional Republic
The idea that work is a gift from God and a means of glorifying Him.
Puritan Work Ethic
The bird that symbolizes America’s strength, power, and freedom.
Bald Eagle
The verse where success and prosperity are promised to the person who will meditate upon the laws of God and obey them.
Joshua 1:8
The amendment to the Constitution that separation of church and state is based on.
First Amendment.
Whom civil government receives its authority from.
God
Another name for the Ten Commandments.
Decalogue
The totalitarian dictatorship in which all power is vested in one ruler.
Fascism
The people rule indirectly through elected representatives
Indirect Democracy
Man who said, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country?”
John F. Kennedy
“The people rule”
Democracy
He was NOT an absolute monarch
Francisco Franco
The price of socialism according to Charles Shuman
Freedom
The Upper House of Parliament
House of Lords
The cornerstone of American government
Character of American people
The Lower House of Parliament
House of Commons
The document, for the first time in English history, placed the king under the law of the land.
Magna Carta
The greatest influence on the English nation
Bible
Non-codified form of law based on long-accepted customs and traditions
Common law
The first representative assembly in the colonies.
House of Burgesses
The local unit of government in the southern colonies.
County
The word that means “Our loyalty, our support, and our devotion to duty.
Allegiance
The following became the model for the colonial legislatures in America and for the U.S. Congress
Parliament
This is represented above the head of the chief justice of the Supreme Court.
The Ten Commandments
The word describes the characteristics and traditions that have been handed down to us by our ancestors.
Heritage
Member of Parliament that supported the American colonists
Edmund Burke
The act that not only cut off all trade between the colonies and England, but also officially removed the colonies from the “King’s Protection”
Prohibitory Act
A love for ones’s country and a loyalty to that country
Patriotism
The first foundational civil ordinance
Capital punishment
Number of people that have been killed by Marxist totalitarianism in the Soviet Union and Red China alone
More than 140 million
Limited the power of English monarchs
English Bill of Rights
A covenant under God to establish a “civil body politick”
Mayflower Compact
The legislature composed of one house
Unicameral
Wrote the Pledge of Allegiance
Francis Bellamy
Wrote the “Star-Spangled Banner”
Francis Scott Key
Became the first black American to achieve the rank of four-star general
Daniel “Chappie” James
Wrote “Commentaries on the Laws of England”
William Blackstone
The most outstanding constitutional monarchy in world history
Queen Victoria
Formulated the basic ideas of Communism
Karl Marx
Was the first to put the communism into practice on a large scale
Vladimir Lenin
Laid the foundations for the right to trial by jury
Henry II
Convened the Model Parliament in 1295
Edward l
Drafted the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
The event that had an immeasurable effect upon the unity of the colonists and helped prepare them for future political, economic, and religious liberty
Great Awakening
According to William Blackstone, what are the two foundations for law?
Revealed Law and Natural Law
