Types of Government
A single person, such as a king or queen, is the leader.
What is a monarchy?
The location/nation of the first democracy.
What is Athens?
The belief that all people have a conscience and recognize certain moral truths exist in nature.
What is natural law?
A government that acts without the people's consent or input.
What is a dictatorship?
The founding fathers were afraid of this aspect of direct democracy.
The absence of government.
What is anarchy?
A majority of the electorate makes decisions for the entire electorate.
What is majority rule?
The harmonious coexistence of diverse ethnic, social, religious, and political backgrounds.
What is pluralism?
An elite group that rules with supreme authority.
What is an oligarchy?
The US founders drew inspiration from this person's version of social contract theory.
System of government in which one person rules with supreme authority.
What is an autocracy?
What is presidential system?
Our sinful nature that stains God's image in humans.
What is human depravity?
A government that controls every aspect of the people's lives.
What is totalitarianism?
An example of an institution the founders set up to prevent mob rule.
What is the Electoral College?
A government that is typically administered by a democratically elected parliament while the monarch is a ceremonial head of state.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
Equal treatment when laws are enforced.
What is equality?
God's command for humans to exercise good and wise dominion over the world.
What is the Creation Mandate?
A system in which regional governments retain supremacy and delegate few tasks to the national government.
What is a confederate government?
A system in which people elect representatives whose power is limited by a constitution.
What is a constitutional republic?
An example of popular majority.
What is a popular vote?
Two documents that introduced democratic ideals in England.
What are the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights?
The type of separation between church and state that secularists want.
What is absolute separation?
What is federalism?
The three branches of government.
What are legislative, executive, and judicial?