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

first foundational civil ordinance

Answer 2

capital punishment

Question 3

rules of human action or conduct

Answer 3

laws

Question 4

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

Answer 4

natural law

Question 5

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

Answer 5

commandments

Question 6

states how the Great Commandment is to be fufilled

Answer 6

Decalogue or the Ten Commandments

Question 7

a Babylonian king and contemporary of the Hebrew patriarchs

Answer 7

Hammurabi

Question 8

Sumerian law that was codified

Answer 8

Code of Hammurabi

Question 9

a government where God rules directly

Answer 9

theocracy

Question 10

theocracy denotes

Answer 10

rule by clerics

Question 11

12 member council of clerics

Answer 11

council of guardians

Question 12

supreme religious leader who is appointed for life

Answer 12

ayatollah

Question 13

islamic law

Answer 13

sharia

Question 14

belief that government should remove everything religious from its domain

Answer 14

secularism

Question 15

the rule b one whose will is supreme

Answer 15

autocracy

Question 16

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

Answer 16

democracy

Question 17

rule by a single family

Answer 17

dynasty

Question 18

system of government in which the monarch has unlimited power

Answer 18

absolute monarchy

Question 19

systems 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 19

constitutional monarchies

Question 20

most outstanding constitutional monarch in world history and had the longest reigning monarch

Answer 20

Queen Victoria

Question 21

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

Answer 21

dictatorship

Question 22

military cabinet

Answer 22

junta

Question 23

control all aspects of society

Answer 23

totalitarian

Question 24

totalitarian dictatorship in which all power is vested in one ruler

Answer 24

facism

Question 25

short for national socialism, was a form of racist fascism that dominated Germany

Answer 25

nazism

Question 26

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 dominated the person, property, and thoughts of all the citizens by means of physical and psychological force and terror.

Answer 26

communism

Question 27

a system of government control over the economy of a nation

Answer 27

socialism

Question 28

government, not individuals, should own or control over the economy of a nation

Answer 28

economic system

Question 29

socialism seeks political change through legislation and government regulation

Answer 29

political movement

Question 30

socialism maintains that the individual is unimportant when compared to the welfare of the group

Answer 30

social theory

Question 31

socialism insists that man is basically good but has been corrupted by society and that man's goodness will express itself if he is given the right environment

Answer 31

religious faith

Question 32

the people rule directly by popular vote

Answer 32

direct democracy

Question 33

the model of democracy in modern times, and it practices a limited form of direct democracy

Answer 33

Switzerland

Question 34

where citizens govern their local community through regular meetings and vote on important decisions

Answer 34

New England town meeting

Question 35

the people rule indirectly through elected representatives

Answer 35

indirect democracy

Question 36

most common form of indirect democracy today

Answer 36

parliamentary democracy

Question 37

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

Answer 37

constitutional republic

Question 38

our response to civil government

Answer 38

pray for those in authority | to respect and submit to their authority

Question 39

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

Answer 39

separation of church and state

Question 40

character of the american people is the

Answer 40

cornerstone of american goernment