Civics Ch. 2
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- Government
- the authority and power to control, to direct, and to rule the actions and affairs of others
- Sovereign
- supreme authority; God is sovereign over all nations, rulers, and individuals
- Capital Punishment
- the death penalty; the firts foundational civil ordinance
- Laws
- Rules people follow in living together
- Code of Hammurabi
- The codification of Sumerian laws; the law code of the Babylonian king Hammurabi
- Decalogue
- Another name for the Ten Commandments
- Revealed Law
- Law given by God explicitly in the Scriptures
- Natural Law
- the law which "nature has taught all living beings" and which is written on our hearts, e.g., living honestly, harming no one, and giving to each his own
- Theocracy
- A system of government in which God Himself rules personally or through chosen representatives
- Autocracy
- Rule by one whose will is supreme
- Democracy
- Rule by the people, either directly by popular vote or indirectly through elected representatives
- Totalitarian Dictatorship
- A system of government in which one ruler controls all aspects of society
- Socialism
- A system of government control over the economy of a nation
- Fascism
- A form of socialism in which all power is vested in a dictator and a single political party
- Communism
- A totalitarian dictatorship by one or more persons that advocates the violent, revolutionary overthrow of the existing economic, political, and social order and sets up a tyrannical state that dominates the person, property, and thought of all the citizens by means of physical and psychological force and terror ---In other words.....BAD! BAD! BAD!
- Materialism
- A misconception of reality which asserts that matter is eternal and uncreated and is in a never-ending process of self-transformation
- Separation of church and state
- The idea that the church and the government are to remain institutionally separate
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Who Wrote Das Kapital? - Karl Marx