Biblical Foundations & Government
The command in Genesis that calls humans to wisely rule and steward the earth.
What is the Creation Mandate?
A government ruled by a king or queen, often hereditary.
What is a monarchy?
The weak national document that governed the U.S. after independence before the Constitution.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The branch of government whose primary function is to make laws.
What is the legislative branch (Congress)?
The constitutional amendment that reserves powers to the states or the people.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
The term for the twisted condition of human nature that makes government necessary.
What is human depravity?
A single‑person rule with unchecked power, often non‑hereditary.
What is an autocratic dictatorship (autocracy)?
This 1787 meeting produced the Constitution and was presided over by George Washington.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
Article II establishes this branch, led by the president who must be at least 35 and a natural‑born citizen.
What is the executive branch?
Grants given for a specific purpose by formula or project are called this.
What are categorical grants?
One obligation of government listed in the notes that involves applying laws equally and protecting rights.
What is ensuring justice?
Rule by a few elite individuals or families.
What is an oligarchy?
The compromise that created a bicameral Congress with a House by population and a Senate equal per state.
What is the Great (Connecticut) Compromise?
This Article creates the judicial branch and describes original and appellate jurisdiction.
What is Article III?
Grants that combine multiple categorical grants with fewer federal rules are called this.
What are block grants?
The New Testament duty that calls Christians to support leaders through prayer and testimony.
What is to pray for leaders and witness to them?
A system in which people elect representatives and laws are codified — the U.S. model.
What is a constitutional republic (democratic republic)?
The agreement that counted a portion of the enslaved population for representation.
What is the Three‑Fifths Compromise?
The process of returning a criminal who fled to another state to face trial is called this.
What is extradition?
The clause often used to justify implied powers and called the elastic clause.
What is the Necessary and Proper Clause?
The word for the absence of government, a condition rejected in the notes as unrealistic.
What is anarchy?
In this system the central government creates and can dissolve local governments; Britain and France are examples.
What is a unitary system?
The essays written by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay advocating Constitution ratification.
What are the Federalist Papers?
The clause that makes the Constitution and federal laws superior to state laws.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
The method the national government can use to influence state policy by threatening to withhold these.
What are federal grants (or grants‑in‑aid)?