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American Government AQ2
This is a review for the second appendix quiz of the A Beka curriculum's American Government course.
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History
12th Grade
08/22/2014

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God
Definition
Every form of government derives its authority from who?
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theocracy
Definition
In what form of government does God rule directly?
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rule by clerics
Definition
Today, the word theocracy denotes _____.
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secularism
Definition
What is the belief that government should remove everything religious from its domain?
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autocracy
Definition
What is the rule by one whose will is supreme?
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democracy
Definition
In what form of government do the people rule, either directly by popular vote or indirectly through elected representatives?
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dynasty
Definition
What is a rule by a single family?
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inheritance
Definition
The distinguishing feature of a monarch is that he received his position by _____.
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absolute monarch
Definition
An _____ is a system of government in which the monarch has unlimited power.
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constitutional monarchies
Definition
Which monarchies are systems of government in which the monarch's power is limited by a constitution and is equal to or subservient to an elected representative assembly?
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dictatorship
Definition
A _____ is a system of government in which the ruler acquires his power by some means other than inheritance and rules with absolute authority.
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junta
Definition
In a military dictatorship, the military rules through a ____, which is made up of the heads of the branches of the armed forces.
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totalitarian
Definition
In what dictatorship does the dictator control all aspects of society?
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facism
Definition
_____ is a totalitarian dictatorship in which all power is vested in one ruler.
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communism
Definition
_____ is 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.
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140 million people
Definition
How many people have been murdered by Marxist totalitarianism?
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socialism
Definition
_____ is not a form of government per se, but a system of government control over the economy of a nation.
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economic system
Definition
As an _____, socialism's key tenet is that government, not individuals, should own or control a nation's resources and its means of production.
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economic system, political movement, social theory, and religious faith
Definition
What all can socialism be considered?
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