Unit 1: Chapter 2

Question 1

What does it mean when we say that God is sovereign?

Answer 1

It means that He has the both the supreme power and the right to govern all nations and their rulers.

Question 2

What is the source of governmental authority ?

Answer 2

God

Question 3

What is the first foundational civil ordinance ?

Answer 3

Capital Punishment

Question 4

What is God’s purpose for government ?

Answer 4

To protect the innocent by punishing the guilty.

Question 5

Who wrote Commentaries on the Laws of England ?

Answer 5

William Blackstone

Question 6

What are the two foundations for law ?

Answer 6

Revealed Law - directly from God

Natural Law - discernible by all men as image-bearers of God

Question 7

What are commandments ?

Answer 7

Orders from God telling men what to do and what not to do.

Question 8

What is another name for the Ten Commandments ?

Answer 8

The Decalogue

Question 9

What was the name for the first Law code written by man, and who wrote it ?

Answer 9

It was called the Code of Hammurabi written by Hammurabi.

Question 10

What is a government where God rules directly called ?

Answer 10

Theocracy

Question 11

What is the belief that government should remove everything religious from its domain ?

Answer 11

Secularism

Question 12

What is an Autocracy ?

Answer 12

Rule by one whose will is supreme.

Question 13

What is a democracy ?

Answer 13

The people rule, either by popular vote or indirectly through elected representatives.

Question 14

How did a monarch receive his position ?

Answer 14

Through inheritance

Question 15

What is a system of government in which the monarch has unlimited power?

Answer 15

Absolute Monarch

Question 16

What are constitutional monarchies ?

Answer 16

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

Question 17

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

Answer 17

A dictatorship

Question 18

What is totalitarianism ?

Answer 18

It controls all aspects of society

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Fascism

Question 20

What was Nazism ?

Answer 20

Racist Fascism

Question 21

What is Communism ?

Answer 21

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.

Question 22

What is another name for Communism?

Answer 22

Marxist-Leninism

Question 23

About how many people have been killed by Communism ?

Answer 23

140 million people

Question 24

What is a system of government control over the economy of a nation ?

Answer 24

Socialism

Question 25

What is a direct democracy ?

Answer 25

The people rule directly by popular vote.

Question 26

What is an indirect democracy ?

Answer 26

The people rule indirectly through elected representatives.

Question 27

What is a constitutional republic ?

Answer 27

The people and their representatives are limited by a constitution.

Question 28

What country has an unwritten constitution ?

Answer 28

England

Question 29

In response to government, Christians should always do these two things ...

Answer 29

1. Pray for those in authority. | 2. Respect and submit to their authority

Question 30

It is also the Christian's duty to do these three things...

Answer 30

1. Pray daily for their public officials. 2. Be informed on the issues and about the candidates so that they can vote intelligently at each election. 3. Write to their elected representatives in order to influence the legislative process.

Question 31

What is the idea that the church and the government are to remain institutionally separate ?

Answer 31

Separation of church and state

Question 32

What is the Cornerstone of the American government ?

Answer 32

The character of the American people.

Question 33

What is government?

Answer 33

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