Civics & Creation
This is the study of government and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
What is civics?
God gave these famous laws to Moses.
What are the Ten Commandments?
Hammurabi ruled this ancient civilization.
What is Babylon?
This Greek city-state became famous for democracy.
What is Athens?
Christianity teaches that every human life has value because every person was created by this Being.
Who is God?
According to the Christian worldview, human beings have special dignity because they are created in this.
What is the image of God?
This man received God’s law for Israel.
Who is Moses?
Babylon was located in this region known for its rich soil between major rivers.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Rome developed this type of government in which citizens elected people to represent them.
What is a republic?
Jesus summarized our responsibility toward other people with the command to love your neighbor as this person.
Who is yourself?
A freedom or protection that belongs to a person and is not simply a special benefit granted by government.
What is a right?
Moses received the Ten Commandments on this mountain.
What is Mount Sinai?
Hammurabi is famous for having his laws recorded in this form rather than leaving them unwritten. What was this called?
What is a written code of law?
In Ancient Greece, citizenship and voting were generally limited to this group.
Who were free adult male citizens?
Romans 13 teaches that governing authorities ultimately receive their authority from this source.
Who is God?
Government does not create our most basic rights. According to the Declaration of Independence, they come from this source.
Who is our Creator/God?
The Hebrew understanding of law taught that even kings and rulers were under this.
What is God’s law?
One important benefit of written laws is that citizens can do this instead of depending entirely on what a ruler says at the moment.
What is know the law/rules?
America borrowed this broad Roman idea: citizens do not have to vote on every law themselves because they can elect these people to govern for them.
Who are representatives?
Complete the Declaration phrase: people “are endowed by their ______ with certain unalienable Rights.”
What is Creator?
Because people are created with dignity but are also capable of wrongdoing, good government must both protect people and do this.
What is punish wrongdoing?
The idea that rulers must obey a law higher than themselves helped prepare the way for this important principle of government.
What is the rule of law?
Hammurabi’s laws were not completely equal because punishments could differ according to this.
What is a person’s social class/status?
Athenians could vote to send a dangerous or overly powerful citizen away for ten years through this practice.
What is ostracism?
Many American Founders believed that a free republic could survive only if its citizens practiced this kind of moral character.
What is virtue?