Presby Politics
Presbyterian's form of governance is representational--by the elders of the Session--which was later adopted into this young country's governmental style.
What is the United States of America?
This elected commissioner is seen every time you get into an elevator.
What is the Commissioner of Labor?
This prophet was Israel's last judge before the people demanded a king?
Who is Samuel?
This woman's suffrage activist and abolitionist is most known for writing the words for the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
Who is Julia Ward Howe?
To vote in NC you'll need proof with one of these.
What is a Voter ID?
Of the 56 names written on this document, 12 of them were Presbyterians.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This elected commissioner is in charge of our county budget including what the school budget will be.
Who are the county commissioners?
This woman saved her people when calling out the genocidal plan of the Persian king's main advisor.
Who is Ester?
This printer, newspaper publisher, radical abolitionist, suffragist, civil rights activist spent his life disturbing the peace of the nation in the cause of justice. (Hint: one of our WS PCUSA Churches is named after him.)
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
After almost discontinuing their partial electoral college vote this year, this state didn't do it after the vote failed by only one vote.
What is Nebraska?
What is the Orthodox Presbyterian Church?
This elected official is in charge of signing off the election results and is 4th in line of succession to the governor (NC elected its first woman to the office in 1997).
What is the Secretary of State?
This political prisoner frightened the governor as he preached about a faith of "justice, self-control, and the coming judgment."
Who is St. Paul
This journalist and activist challenged the racism of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the National American Woman Suffrage Association, two of the leading organizations of the US suffragette movement. In 1913 she co-founded the Alpha Suffrage Club, and marched defiantly in the women's suffrage parade in Washington, DC.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This is the number of votes needed to be elected into the office of POTUS.
What is 270?
After the Revolutionary War, King George blamed pulpits and pubs as the gathering places of sedition. Many Brits even called the Revolutionary War this.
What is the Presbyterian Rebellion?
This is the elected person most major corporations and agencies want to have on their good side.
What is the Auditor?
This king became outraged when a group of friends would not worship the golden statue he had made (he actually turned up the furnace seven times more than normal!).
Who is King Nebuchadnezzar?
She said, “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.”
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?
In this English speaking country it is required by law to vote.
What is Australia?
This Scottish Presbyterian was known for speaking out against Mary Queen of Scots after her assassination attempts on Queen Elizabeth.
This is the elected state administrative officer who is responsible for managing state education funds while establishing policy and procedures such as course content, testing requirements, and more for public schools.
Who is the Superintendent of Public Instruction?
This "great" political figure sought the knowledge of outsiders to persecute all remaining threats to his power.
Who is Herod the Great?
She was the first Black woman to run for President of the United States as a Democrat in 1972.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
North Carolina has this number of electoral votes.
What is sixteen?