Governments
God rules directly
Theocracy
Another name for the 10 Commandments
Decalogue
What bird symbolizes America's strength, power, and freedom?
Bald Eagle
Drafted the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
The first foundational civil Ordinance
Capital Punishment
The ruler exercises unlimited authority and usually inherits his position
Absolute Monarchy
What is the idea that work is a gift from God and a means of glorifying Him?
Puritan Work Ethic
What word means "loyalty, our support, and our devotion to duty?
Allegiance
Wrote Commentaries on the Laws of England
William Blackstone
The first representative assembly in the colonies
The House of Burgesses
"To rule by oneself"
Autocracy
What is represented above the head of the chief justice of the Supreme Court?
The Ten Commandments
Characteristics and traditions that have been handed down to us by our ancestors
Heritage
Laid the foundation for the right to trial by Jury
What event helped prepare the colonies for future political, economic, and religious liberty?
The Great Awakening
The people rule indirectly through elected representatives
Indirect Democracy
Romans 13:1-4 States that "the powers that be are..."
Ordained of God.
What word means "the people rule"?
Democracy
The first to put Communisim into practice on a large scale
Vladimir Lenin
Who was the member of Parliament who supported the American Colonists?
Edmund Burke
a dictatorship that controls all aspects of society through coercion
Totalitarian Dictatorship
In what verse are success and prosperity promised to the person who will meditate upon the laws of God and obey them?
Joshua 1:8
The people and their representatives are limited by a constitution
Constitutional Republic
Formulated the basic ideas of Communism
Karl Marx
House of Lords/Commons