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Government Test 1 Flashcards

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1
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Means “to rule by oneself”

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autocracy

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The ruler exercises unlimited authority and usually inherits his position.

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Absolute Monarchy

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The ruler requires power by some means other than inheritance and rules with absolute authority.

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Dictatorship

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4
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The people rule directly by popular vote.

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Direct Democracy

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The ruler is limited by a democracy.

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Constitutional Monarchy

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God rules directly.

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Theocracy

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An economic system in which the government controls the nation’s resources and its means of production.

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Socialism

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A dictatorship that controls all aspects of society through coercion.

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Totalitarian Dictatorship

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The people and their representatives are limited by a constitution.

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Constitutional Republic

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10
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The idea that work is a gift from God and a means of glorifying Him.

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Puritan Work Ethic

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The bird that symbolizes America’s strength, power, and freedom.

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Bald Eagle

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The verse where success and prosperity are promised to the person who will meditate upon the laws of God and obey them.

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Joshua 1:8

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13
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The amendment to the Constitution that separation of church and state is based on.

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First Amendment.

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14
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Whom civil government receives its authority from.

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God

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15
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Another name for the Ten Commandments.

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Decalogue

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16
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The totalitarian dictatorship in which all power is vested in one ruler.

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Fascism

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17
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The people rule indirectly through elected representatives

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Indirect Democracy

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Man who said, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country?”

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John F. Kennedy

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19
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“The people rule”

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Democracy

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20
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He was NOT an absolute monarch

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Francisco Franco

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21
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The price of socialism according to Charles Shuman

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Freedom

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22
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The Upper House of Parliament

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House of Lords

23
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The cornerstone of American government

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Character of American people

24
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The Lower House of Parliament

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House of Commons

25
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The document, for the first time in English history, placed the king under the law of the land.

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Magna Carta

26
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The greatest influence on the English nation

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Bible

27
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Non-codified form of law based on long-accepted customs and traditions

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Common law

28
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The first representative assembly in the colonies.

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House of Burgesses

29
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The local unit of government in the southern colonies.

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County

30
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The word that means “Our loyalty, our support, and our devotion to duty.

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Allegiance

31
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The following became the model for the colonial legislatures in America and for the U.S. Congress

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Parliament

32
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This is represented above the head of the chief justice of the Supreme Court.

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The Ten Commandments

33
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The word describes the characteristics and traditions that have been handed down to us by our ancestors.

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Heritage

34
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Member of Parliament that supported the American colonists

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Edmund Burke

35
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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”

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Prohibitory Act

36
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A love for ones’s country and a loyalty to that country

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Patriotism

37
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The first foundational civil ordinance

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Capital punishment

38
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Number of people that have been killed by Marxist totalitarianism in the Soviet Union and Red China alone

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More than 140 million

39
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Limited the power of English monarchs

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English Bill of Rights

40
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A covenant under God to establish a “civil body politick”

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Mayflower Compact

41
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The legislature composed of one house

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Unicameral

42
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Wrote the Pledge of Allegiance

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Francis Bellamy

43
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Wrote the “Star-Spangled Banner”

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Francis Scott Key

44
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Became the first black American to achieve the rank of four-star general

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Daniel “Chappie” James

45
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Wrote “Commentaries on the Laws of England”

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William Blackstone

46
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The most outstanding constitutional monarchy in world history

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Queen Victoria

47
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Formulated the basic ideas of Communism

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Karl Marx

48
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Was the first to put the communism into practice on a large scale

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Vladimir Lenin

49
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Laid the foundations for the right to trial by jury

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Henry II

50
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Convened the Model Parliament in 1295

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Edward l

51
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Drafted the Declaration of Independence

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Thomas Jefferson

52
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The event that had an immeasurable effect upon the unity of the colonists and helped prepare them for future political, economic, and religious liberty

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Great Awakening

53
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According to William Blackstone, what are the two foundations for law?

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Revealed Law and Natural Law

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