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American Government Q2
This is a review of the A Beka curriculum 12th grade American Government Quiz 2.
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12th Grade
08/26/2014

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Term
Government
Definition
The authority and power to control, to direct, and to rule the actions and affairs of others.
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Sovereign
Definition
As in, God is _____. He has boththe supreme power and the right to govern all nations and their rulers.
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Capital punishment
Definition
The first foundational civil ordinance in which God taught man the sanctity of human life.
Term
To protect the innocent by punishing the guilty.
Definition
What is God's purpose for government?
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Laws
Definition
Rules of human action or conduct
Term
Revealed law and natural law
Definition
What are the two foundations for law?
Term
Revealed law
Definition
The law given by God explicitly in the Holy Scripture
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Natural law
Definition
The law which "Nature has taught all living beings," can be summed up as living honestly, harming no one, and giving to each his own. This law is the law that God placed in man's heart.
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Commandments
Definition
Orders from God telling men what to do and what not to do
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The Decalogue
Definition
What is another name for the Ten Commandments?
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Positive law
Definition
The idea that when a law is made, the only reason to obey the law i that they have mad it.
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God
Definition
Every form of government derives it's authority from _____.
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Theocracy
Definition
A government where God rules directly.
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Secularism
Definition
The belief that government should remove everything religious from its domain.
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Autocracy
Definition
The rule by one whose will is supreme.
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Democracy
Definition
The people rule, either directly by popular vote or indirectly through elected representatives.
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Dynasty
Definition
The rule by a single family.
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He receives his position by inheritance
Definition
What is the distinguishing feature of a monarch?
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Absolute monarchy
Definition
A system of government in which the monarch has unlimited power.
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Constitutional monarchies
Definition
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.
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Dictatorship
Definition
A system of government in which the ruler acquires his power by some means other than inheritance and rules with absolute authority.
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Totalitarian
Definition
Dictators that control all aspects of society.
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Facism
Definition
A totalitarian dictatorship in which all power is vested in one ruler.
Term
Communism
Definition
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.
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Socialism
Definition
A system of government control over the economy of a nation.
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