Van Allen: GOVT 200: LOJ
What did Henry Maine write/significance? - correct answer ✔✔Popular Government (1885), "american
constitution is distinctively English, because principles and features were familiar from England
American Constitution of 1787, was____ in a ___ document - correct answer ✔✔contained, single
The English constitution was not a ____, - correct answer ✔✔written
The English constitution consists of (3) major parts - correct answer ✔✔1. certain charters and statutes
that are regarded as fundamental law
2.principles derived from the common law
3. A great variety of political and legal customs and traditions
What does the English Constitution mean when it says statutes? - correct answer ✔✔they enjoy
constitutional status that deal with the distribution and exercise of power, and those which guarantee
certain freedoms.
What are the three political documents? - correct answer ✔✔Magna Carta (1215)
Petition of Right (1628)
Bill of Rights (1689)
Where did the phrase "law of the land" and what did it evolve to? - correct answer ✔✔Originated as a
clause in the Magna Carta, and evolved into "due process of law" which is found in the 5, and 14
amendments
What is the 5th Ammendment of the US Constitution? - correct answer ✔✔Due process, double
jeopardy, self-incrimination, private property
What is the 14th amendment? - correct answer ✔✔granted citizenship to all who were natural born in
the us
What is an important fundamental difference between the English and American constitutions? - correct
answer ✔✔The question of soverignty
What is soverignty? - correct answer ✔✔It signifies the highest government or legal authority
Where does the concept of sovereignty lie in the English Constitution? - correct answer ✔✔Resides in
Parliament, which means that it is supreme and it's authority cannot be challenged by the crown or the
judiciary.
Is there a supreme court to declare acts of Parliament unconstitutional? - correct answer ✔✔No, this
only occurs in the United States
In regards to the English Constitution, what are customs and traditions? - correct answer ✔✔unwritten
laws that are universally accepted by individuals, communities, groups and society itself
What does it mean that our God is sovereign? - correct answer ✔✔It means that he is the creator who
has given us permission to give man government
What is the separation of powers? - correct answer ✔✔Dividing government into parts each with its
own powers.
How is the English Constitution incorporate the idea of a bicameral house? - correct answer ✔✔House
of Commons (lower)/Lords
Is there a clear separation of personnel under the parliamentary system? - correct answer ✔✔No, only
in the American system
The English have a ___ system and the Americans have a __ system - correct answer ✔✔Parliamentary,
Presidential
What are the three branches of government? - correct answer ✔✔Legislative, Executive, Judicial
How is the American Constitution incorporate the idea of a bicameral house? - correct answer ✔✔House
of Representatives/ the Senate
How many members sit in the English Houses? - correct answer ✔✔House of Commons (650 members)
House of Lords
(797 members)
How many members sit in the American Congress? - correct answer ✔✔House of representatives (435
members
Senate: (100 members)
What is bicameralism? - correct answer ✔✔a device fro restraining the legsilature
What is the function of the prime minister? - correct answer ✔✔Holds a seat in the House of common
and is the leader of the majority party of that body
Is there a time where members can serve in other branches/houses? - correct answer ✔✔This is
impossible in the American system, but in the English system, this is possible
What is an example of a statute being challenged by the Americans? - correct answer ✔✔The stamp Act
(1765) imposed a direct tax on printed materials produced on stamp paper in the British colonies in
America,
The Americans deemed this unconstitutional and appealed to Parliament
The Federal Judiciary System - correct answer ✔✔It was established in both constitutions but as an
independent branch, but not free of legislative and executive control
Why did the framers allow judges in the Federal Judiciary System to sit for life? - correct answer
✔✔Judges were allowed to remain on the bench for life, which prevented angry legislatures from
attempting to influence them with salary increases.
What was one of the principle constitutional grievance of the colonists? - correct answer ✔✔"Taxation
without representation" was the bedrock of the American constitutionalism
Compare and contrast the speakers of houses in both houses. - correct answer ✔✔In the English system,
the speaker of the house of commons is a neutral figure that does not vote or participate.
The speaker of the House of representatives is the majority leader and holds power
What was the original parliament? - correct answer ✔✔It dates back to the King's council (Witans:which
means meeting of wise men)
Under the Anglo-Saxon's before the Norman invasion in 1066, but some historians prefer 1215.
Background of Magna Carta - correct answer ✔✔During the time of King John, the people of England
wanted to transition from an Absolute monarch to a constitutional
What is habeas corpus? - correct answer ✔✔the right of a person to hear charges against him/her, leads
to right to a trial
What is does Magna Carta mean in latin? - correct answer ✔✔great charter
What is he magna carta? - correct answer ✔✔It is documenatary conclusion to the rights and liberties,
contreversy between King John of England and his Barons
What is the mayflower compact? - correct answer ✔✔1620: set the foundation for the American
constitution, first political covenant in America, by the english separatists, first example of self-
government, consent and covenant
What does the Magna Carta translate into? - correct answer ✔✔It translates into the "Cornerstone" of
both constitutions
What did the Magna Carta bound the King to do? - correct answer ✔✔To extend certain basic liberties to
all freemen in the precise year of 1295.
Who established the Model Parliament? - correct answer ✔✔King Edward I
What is the Model Parliament? - correct answer ✔✔Here for the first time ever the right of
representation was present in parliament and permanently established
a governing body created by King Edward I that included some commoners, Church officials, and nobles
Which two bodies from the English Constitution merged to form the House of Lords? - correct answer
✔✔The House of Temporal and Spiritual
Why is the church listed first in the Magna Carta? reason? - correct answer ✔✔It represents the culture/
focus. This is where we first see separation between church and state
This is beacuse the civil government has imposed tyrannical authority and the church wanted to be free
of that
Which state constitutions impacted the federal constitution? - correct answer ✔✔Mass, Connecticut,va
How was the power shifted into the House of ___? - correct answer ✔✔Edward I wanted to raise taxes
to support his wars, the House of Commons gradually assumed the power
Linage of the Tudor Dynasty - correct answer ✔✔henry 7
Henry 8
Edward 6
Lady Jane grey
Mary 1
Elizabath I
Mary Queen of Scots
Linage of The House of Stuart - correct answer ✔✔James 1st
Charles 1st
Charles 2nd
James 2nd
Mary 2ns
Who came first Tudor or the Stuart? - correct answer ✔✔Tudor then Stuart
Where in the American Constitution does it discuss Bills? - correct answer ✔✔Article I, section 7
All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives
According to characteristics, how were both houses similar? - correct answer ✔✔The house of commons
and the House of representives are considered closer to the people
The senate and the house of lords are smaller more exclusive bodies
What clause originated from the Magna Carta? - correct answer ✔✔It established that all englishmen,
not just lords are entitles personal liberty and no man even the king is above the law
During the times of the Tudor/ Stuart, when did we see a absolute/ constitutional monarch? - correct
answer ✔✔The tudors were manipuatlive and dominated their parliaments, once James I became the
first stuart king, the contest between kings was back to normal.
Acecesion of James II - correct answer ✔✔(1685)rHe was a catholic, brought up in protestant England
Accession of William III - correct answer ✔✔(1689) he was compelled to recognize the supremacy of
parliament, which led to monarch's diminshing power
The election of George King of Hanover... King George III - correct answer ✔✔In 1714, he came over
from Germany to rule England, as George I
After that, two more George's ruled unfamiliar with the English ways, but George III hoping to rule as
Patriot King tried to restore royal authority but help bring the American revolution.
What were the power struggles during the Early 17th century? - correct answer ✔✔England: The King
and Parliament
America: Colonists and their grievances to Parliament
what is despotism? - correct answer ✔✔the exercise of absolute power, especially in a cruel and
oppressive way.
Who was Oliver Cromwell? - correct answer ✔✔reigned after Charles I in 1649 and plunged England in
Despotic Rule
What came out of the Glorious Revolution in terms of Parliament? - correct answer ✔✔(1688-1689)As a
result of a bloodless revolt against the monarch, Parliament became sovereign fixture
What was the Act of Settlement of 1701/ significance? - correct answer ✔✔It confirmed the right of
Parliament to determine the line of succession to the throne.
What is the legal fiction of the King-in-Parliament? - correct answer ✔✔When the Monarch is just a
figurehead, with little power.
Who is lord north and his significance? - correct answer ✔✔He was the Tory leader of the majority party
in Party.
What were the principles of the Whig Party? - correct answer ✔✔they supported the constitutional
monarchy in the writing of John Locke, they were victorious in the revolution and dominated until 1760
What were the principles of the Tory Party? - correct answer ✔✔They favored a strong government,
wanted ideas such as royal absolutism,
What caused colonial rebellion in 1763? - correct answer ✔✔This occurred because the new Tory
government enacted a tax reform designed to tighten their grip on American Colonies, which ultimately
led to the American Revolution
Who is William Blackstone? - correct answer ✔✔
Who wrote the Federalist Papers? - correct answer ✔✔James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, to
defend the constitution
What is did John Adams publish that found all political systems infeiror - correct answer ✔✔A defence of
the Constitutions of Government
What is a detrimental political phenomena that the framers made it impossible to occur? - correct
answer ✔✔For any single group to gain absolute power in the expense of other groups.
American leaders believed what sort of government was the only hope of preserving liberty? - correct
answer ✔✔Republicanism
What was the first great document that served to be a landmark in the English constitutional history? -
correct answer ✔✔Magna Carta 1215
Who was John Locke? What did he write? - correct answer ✔✔Second Treatise on Civil Government
Who was Sir William Blackstone? - correct answer ✔✔A monarchist that sided with the American
Colonies
Edmund Burke Background - correct answer ✔✔Irish Statesmen from the house of commons, who
supported the American cause that they hired him to represent the colony of New York
Edmund Burke writings - correct answer ✔✔Speech on American Taxation (1774): attacks on repressive
tax measures enacted by parliament in retaliation of of the Boston Tea Party
Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies (1775): pleaded for moderation and restraint and warned his
colleagues that they underestimated the americans
What did Sir William Blackstone write? - correct answer ✔✔(1765) Commentaries on the laws of
England: influenced ideas such as crimes and misdemanors:
ex: ex post facto laws: when something was legal when the crime was committed
What did Great Sir Edwards Coke write? - correct answer ✔✔Institutues of the Laws of England:
supported the supremacy of the law and challenged doctrines of legislative supremacy and claims to
Parliament controlling the colonial affairs
What did James Otis write/Argue? - correct answer ✔✔Writs of Assistance case of 1761: He was from
Massachusetts and he argued that Parliament had no right to authorize British customs and officials to
issue search warrants
What was Dr. Bonham's Case 1610? - correct answer ✔✔Asserted that the common law controlled acts
of Parliament
What did Francis Bacon write? - correct answer ✔✔elements of the common law: to strengthen the
equity of jurisprudence and check power of the common law judges.
What is the equity or chancery? - correct answer ✔✔It denotes fairness and consists of a body of rules
outside of the common aw, it supplements the common law
What is equity or Chancery courts? - correct answer ✔✔These were separated from common law,
promoted "King's justice", they also issued injunctions in order to prevent an injury
What is an injury according to law? - correct answer ✔✔Any harm suffered by a person due to some act
or omission, these can lead to criminal or a civil tort claim.
Bacon vs Coke - correct answer ✔✔
What was the Judiciary Act of 1789? - correct answer ✔✔expanded the power of the federal courts and
played a significant role in the growth of judicial power
What was the Anti-federalist warning against Arbitrary Judicial Discretion? - correct answer ✔✔That
judges would exceed their powers and ignore the law in the name of justice
What was the Stamp Act of 1765? - correct answer ✔✔it claimed that the statute of taxing anything
printed violated both a constitutional and common law rights
What two constitutional rights did the Stamp Act violate? - correct answer ✔✔Taxation by consent and
trial by jury
Who was John Hampden? - correct answer ✔✔Member of Parliament who refused to pay the Ship's Tax
he became a symbol of resistance to oppressive taxation and arbitrary government
What was the background dilemma of the Petition of Right? - correct answer ✔✔The king could not
imprison any person without due process of law
What was the Ship Money Case of 1637? - correct answer ✔✔Hampden was tried for refusing to pay the
small sum of 20 shillings, he claimed that King Charles had no authority to declare national emergency of
his own
Who was Algernon Sidney? - correct answer ✔✔Beheaded on a London scaffold in 1683, he was
falsifying accused of participating in the murder of the king
What did Robert Filmer write? - correct answer ✔✔(1680)Patriarcha, he argued that the king ruled by
divine right and can trace his authority back to scripture
Who defended Natural Rights and what does it claim? - correct answer ✔✔John Locke defended this
idea and claimed that the government has a duty to protect them
What are the Magna Carta major points? - correct answer ✔✔-Rights of church: Shall be free and not
bound to the monarch
-Liberty for all free man and their heirs
-Property rights: no infrignment especially your mind
-Right to a jury of your peers
Habeaus corpus: miranda rights
What of the definition of a petition? - correct answer ✔✔an outline of a list of grievances against some
party
Who wrote the declaration of independence and is it a petiton? - correct answer ✔✔Adams: Mass
Jefferson: Virgina
Franklin: Pennsyvania
yes a petition
When was the writ of corpus suspended? - correct answer ✔✔During president Lincoln (lack of court
order to detain someone)
What is cronyism? - correct answer ✔✔the appointment of friends and associates to positions of
authority, without proper regard to their qualifications
What is habeaus corpus? - correct answer ✔✔protects from unlawful and indefinite imprisonment
Latin: show me the body
What are the 4 major point of the Petition of Right? - correct answer ✔✔1. No taxation without consent
of parliament
2. No imprisonment without probable cause
3. No quartering of soldiers
4. No martial law: Administered by the military, only by civilian government
What is martial law? - correct answer ✔✔Is declared during an emergency or response to a crisis or
invasion
Background of the Petition of Right - correct answer ✔✔Charles 1 imprisoned knights without trial and
force money to be raised for his war
Initiated by Edward Coke, parliament refused to fun the king's unpopular foreign policies
What is the significance of the English Bill of Rights? - correct answer ✔✔Reasserted the ideas of the
Magna Carta
What are some key points of the English Bill of rights? - correct answer ✔✔Freedom from taxation by
monarch, unless parliament agrees
Freedom from armies being raised during peacetimes
Freedom to bear arms for self defense
What is the exactly is the English Bill of Rights? - correct answer ✔✔-A list of the Misdeeds of King James
II
- 13 articles confirming the rights of parliament and the people and defining the limitation of the crown
- Confirmation of the accession of William and Mary to the throne of England.
Comparisons of English Bill of Rights and the US Constitution - correct answer ✔✔-frequently
summoned parliament and free elections
-members should have the freedom of speech in parliament
-no armies should be raised in peactime
-no taxes could be levied unless parliament gives consent
-laws should not be dispenses without consent of parliament
-no execssive fines should be imposed
- no cruel and unusual punishment should be inf
Influence on the American Constitution, what do we get from the Virginia Constitution? - correct answer
✔✔Jefferson declaration relgious freedom, press, freedom of speech
Influence on the American Constitution, what do we get from the Massachusetts Constitution? - correct
answer ✔✔Amendment Power
What is the difference between pilgrims and puritans? - correct answer ✔✔Puritans: purify the church
pilgrims: non separatists
Influence on the American Constitution, what do we get from the Connecticut Constitution? - correct
answer ✔✔We received institutional structure, administrative structure, organizations
Why was Jefferson picked for writing the declaration? - correct answer ✔✔From VA, better writer, well
liked
Definition of Constituting - correct answer ✔✔laying a solid foundation for every other law is built upon
Massachusetts Body of Liberties 1641 - correct answer ✔✔Significance: first legal code of NEw England
to incorporate English Common Law
This document also contains a great degree of old testament law and embodied some of liberties of
magna Charta.
Our culture needs organization/structure
Liberty of ____The virginia bill of rights was established June 12 - correct answer ✔✔conscience
English Constitutions contain three characteristics: - correct answer ✔✔1. certain charters and statutes
are regarded as part of fundamental law.
2. principles derived from common law
3. a great variety of political and legal customs and traditions
Petition of Right - correct answer ✔✔In 1628, which document or contract was drafted by members of
the House of Lords and the House of Commons concerning rights and liberties of the citizens of Great
Britain
The English Bill of Rights - correct answer ✔✔In 1689, this document was drafted by members of house
of Lords and the House of Commons outlining that the monarchy had promoted evil counselors, judges,
ministers and did subvert and extirpate protestant religion and the laws and liberties of Great Britain.
virgina plan - correct answer ✔✔devised by James Madison, called for a three branch government with a
bicameral legislature, where more populous states would have more representation in Congress
Great (Connecticut) Compromise - correct answer ✔✔this agreement drew from both the Virginia and
New Jersey Plans, it settled issues of state representation by calling for a bicameral legislature with a
House of Representatives apportioned proportionally and equally
How was the issue of slavery handled in the by the Convention? - correct answer ✔✔3/5 compromise
What is the 3/5 compromise? - correct answer ✔✔an agreement reached by delegates at the
constitutional convention that a slave would count as 3/5 of a person when evaluating a state's
representation.
What name did the Federalist papers use under? - correct answer ✔✔Publius
What were the Federalist Papers? - correct answer ✔✔a series of 85 essays written by Hamilton, John
Jay and James Madison, they were an example of political propaganda to try and influence ratification/
defend the constitution
What is the 10th amendment about? - correct answer ✔✔reserves powers no delegated to the national
government to the states and the people; the basis of federalism
Define federalism - correct answer ✔✔a system that divides power between the national and state
governments
federalist No. 51 - correct answer ✔✔an essay that Madison argued the separation of powers and
federalism will prevent tyranny
Federalist No. 10 - correct answer ✔✔An essay in which Madison argues that the dangers of faction can
be mitigated by a large republic and republican government.
Brutus No. 1 - correct answer ✔✔An antifederalist paper arguing the country was too large to be
governed as a republic and that the Constitution gave too much power to the national government.
how many states are needed to ratify the constitution? - correct answer ✔✔9 out of 13
What is required for a federalist system to work? - correct answer ✔✔a written constitution
In the Declaration of Independence and in the Declaration of rights, the American colonies gives grounds
for their rights in natural law and in the creator, why was this important? - correct answer ✔✔it excluded
men from being able to change the rights
In the Constitution, what does the phrase "to promote the general welfare" - correct answer ✔✔to
promote the common good
what were the framers trying to avoid when they devised the system of checks and balances in the US
constitution? - correct answer ✔✔Extreme Tyranny and Anarchy
What is the distilled essence of the Biblical Christian Worldview relative to its answers to the four
philosophical dilemmas? - correct answer ✔✔supernatural ontology, revelational epistemology, theistic
axiology, kingdom of God teleology
What is the significance of Aurelius Augustine (354-430AD) Bishop of Hippo, in North Africa? - correct
answer ✔✔Augstine would develop a complete christian philosophy of history and of the state within a
systemic presentation of Christian theology through his City of God. Dominated European Christendom
for close to 800 years
Consider the discussion on 'The Reformation and the Translation of the Scriptures', and be prepared to
identify the institutional impact of the new protestant approach to biblical interpretation in contrast with
Roman Catholicism. - correct answer ✔✔Directly speak/pray to God as a result of the Bible being in
different language. The church was no longer in charge of it all bc it shifted to being an individual
relationship.
What is the significance of the leading French Reformer John Calvin (1509-1564), and what very
influential work did he pen which directly addressed a biblical approach to ecclesiastical and civil
institutional procedure, in contrast to the approaches instituted by the Roman Catholic Church? - correct
answer ✔✔Significance: He confronted the very platonic assumption that the roman catholic church was
the center and reference for life.
Influential work: Institutions of the Christian Religion (1536) which directly addressed a biblical approach
to ecclesiastical and civil institutional procedure in contrast to the Roman Catholic Church
What is the significance of John Wyclif (1320-1384AD)? - correct answer ✔✔Wyclif was an oxford
professor who produced the first English translation of the bible (Wylcif Bible in 1384) it was translated
into the common language so that people could read it themselves
The cultural and institutional consequences of the Reformation are significant not only for European and
British history, but for American history as well. What were some of these new relational principles
derived from the Scriptures which resulted in new institutional patterns dominant in the American
colonies? - correct answer ✔✔1. Civil and religous liberty,
2. limited ecclesistical and civil government
3. limited jurisdiction (shifted towards individuals self government)
'depravity of man' - correct answer ✔✔Man is flawed because we sin, we need God
'no institutional interposition between God and Man' - correct answer ✔✔we can talk directly and freely
to God, shot at the catholic church
'man is prophet, priest, and king under a soverign god' - correct answer ✔✔ideas of self governance
'priesthood of all believers' - correct answer ✔✔we can all talk to God directly
'created virtue of man' - correct answer ✔✔God is virtuous therefore man can be virtuous since we
made in his image
'kingdom of god is spiritual' - correct answer ✔✔God is supreme, eternal, and a great creator who has
the ultimate authoirty
What does this statement mean: As Christians we worship God ontologically as Creator - correct answer
✔✔He is creator, and we are created to worship him
What does this statement mean" As Christians we worship God etymologically and acknowledger and
revealer. - correct answer ✔✔God knows and gives us information
What does this statement mean: As christians we worship God Axiologically as redeemer - correct
answer ✔✔God is the most valuable being in the universe, and humans have infinite eternal value
because God made them in his image.
What does this statement mean: As christians we worship God teleogically as sustainer and coming lord
and king - correct answer ✔✔Humans can live with meaning purpose and direction because God is
soverign and in authority
What is the significance of the Dutch theologian Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920)? - correct answer
✔✔Lectures on Calvinism
6 lectures that address Calvinism as life system, it's impact on religion, politics, art and the future
(sphere sovereignty and God's sovereignty)
Be able to identify the four significant and compelling consequences of the Protestant Reformation. -
correct answer ✔✔1. Christocentric Church- shift to more Christ centered churches which defused
church power
2. Renaisaance humanism is derailed
3. Bibilical Christianity becomes the dominant Global force
4. A biblical base is established in American Civilization
What best represents the institutional arrangement of the Biblical Christian worldview? - correct answer
✔✔Holycommonwealth- covenantal order and system (God is at the top and the govt reports to him
What is meant by the phrase 'covenantal order'? What is a covenant? How are covenants superior to
contracts? - correct answer ✔✔covenants is anything where God is a witness or apart of it
a contact is between Man
What is meant by 'personal covenant,' 'ecclesiastical covenant,' and 'civil social covenant'? - correct
answer ✔✔personal: man and God
Ecclesiastical: between God and church
Civil: Govt and God
What are the two main characteristics of the American constitutional order and system? How is
federalism defined? - correct answer ✔✔Federalism: divided authority and defused power through a
tripartite system of checks and balances within a constitutional framework for the sake of ordered liberty
Other very significant propositions are inherent within Federalism and the American Constitutional
Order and System. Be able to identify the 'doctrine of the lower magistrate.' What identifies 'Federalism'
as America's contribution to political theory? - correct answer ✔✔Doctrine of the lower magistrate - the
interceder between the people and the higher govt
Why did John Adams pen his Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765)? What exactly is this
"wicked confederacy" he describes? - correct answer ✔✔he was calling out tyranny in the British govt,
wicked confederacy was the crown having authority over the state and religion using it to suppress and
enslave others
For example, should civil-government be limited or not? If it should be limited, for what purpose? -
correct answer ✔✔Yes it should be limited
purpose protect people and their rights. Life (national defense) and pursuit of property (right)
Biblically speaking, what is the purpose of civil-government? What is the relationship between the
purpose of civil government and property? Why is civil-government necessary in a fallen world? - correct
answer ✔✔Purpose- protect person and property, it's the government's job to protect it
What is the first sphere of government and governing authority? - correct answer ✔✔sovereignty of God
What is the second sphere of government and governing authority? - correct answer ✔✔individual self
government
Biblical principles of government begin with God as the author of government, which in turn, is
established and directed for His purposes. In this regard, understand the meaning of the assertion: "We
must always begin and end with God in our thinking" as it relates to government. - correct answer
✔✔Government begins with God as the author of government which is directed and established for his
purposes
Understand the nature of, and the relationship between, internal and external government. - correct
answer ✔✔God's 1st internal (personal) then external
Be able to identify the correct definition for "jurisdiction." - correct answer ✔✔lawful use of authority
What exactly is meant by the phrase "Sovereignty of God" in regards to governing authority? - correct
answer ✔✔God's authority to govern man and hold him accountable for his actions and heart
motivations
whatever god requires of man man is accountable to god
How did early colonial Americans (historic Anglo/American definition) define "government"? - correct
answer ✔✔
Be able to associate the purpose, province, and nature of government with their corresponding
questions. In other words, the purpose of government asks what question? The province of government
asks what question? - correct answer ✔✔The purpose of government asks "what is its function" to
govern man's will and administer justice and liberty in a fallen world.
the province of government asks what is the subject matter of its authority and power Upon what
subjects does it exert itself?
the nature of government asks "What is its form and structure
You were given a series of passages from which God's exclusive jurisdiction or governing authority is
understood. Read through these examples of "Rudiments of God's Governing Authority" and be able to
identify the principles of God's sovereignty. In this regard, you will see a series of biblical texts from
which you will be required to tease out God's exclusive authority to govern or rule in a sovereign way,
and other texts which relate to the purpose, province, authority and scope of civil government.
(Consider the word document associated with lecture 9.) - correct answer ✔✔A: All authority originates
in God and is Delegated by him
B: Creator/ creature Distinction" individuality of God: God's role as Creator justifies his authority to rule
C: Human Authority limited by Way of Delegation
How does God justify his authority to rule man supremely? What are the jurisdictional implications for
the following: "What you are belongs to God, who alone has the authority to govern your heart. Man's
heart has been created in such a way that duty relates intimately to a heart matter, a value intention, a
motive, from which virtuous dispositions and acts are derived, and which only God can judge. Force will
destroy the nature of duty—and what is a duty toward God is a right toward your neighbor." - correct
answer ✔✔He is our creator,and bestows upon us certain inalienable rights
Be prepared to answer questions relative to the differences between moral and legal duties, and the
nature of the Sermon on the Mount relative to God's jurisdiction over men's hearts. - correct answer
✔✔Legal: negative duty, obligation not to wrong, enforceable by law, Ex: legal duty not to murder,
punishabke by law
Moral: outside of legal jurisdiction, because it is a positive duty, and obligation to do something, a matter
of conscience,
No such thing as a duty to rescue, won't go to jail for not helping someone on the side of the road.
HAZLITT: Read Chapter 1, "The Lesson," and be able to identify and/or relate the two main factors which
inspire economic fallacies. Be prepared for some quotations here. - correct answer ✔✔Factor 1: Groups
that only want to satisfy their own greedy interests will promote an economic theory to everyone
knowing that it will only benefit themselves if enacted.
Factor 2: When people only look at short-term effects of an economic policy and don't look at the long-
term effects, whether good or badd
HAZLET: Read Chapter 2, "The Broken Window," and be able to identify and/or relate the nature of this
economic fallacy. Be prepared for some quotations here. - correct answer ✔✔There is a story of a young
hoodlum who throws a rock through a baker's window and runs away before being seen. The crowd that
surrounds the broken window conclude (hypothetically) that the young hoodlum actually did a service to
his community. Why? Because now, the baker will spend money (the sum of $250 is given) to someone
to fix his window, thus helping the economy. Why is this wrong? Say the baker instead wanted to use the
$250 to buy himself a new suit. His business transferred from the tailor to the window fixer. No new jobs
are ever "created;" they are simply transferred from one business to another.
Aureliues Augustine - correct answer ✔✔Bishop of Hippo
City of God
1st christian Philosopher/theologian on history
Hazlitt Main Thesis - correct answer ✔✔Good economists look not to immediate consequences, but also
secondary and tertiary consequences
Why is economics subject to numerous fallacies? - correct answer ✔✔Individuals have selfish interests
and only evaluate immediate consequences of economic policy
Magna carta stipulated that the assessment of taxes shall be laid by whom> - correct answer ✔✔House
of commons
Due process of the law at the time of the Magna Charta included by whom? - correct answer ✔✔by
one's peers
Which is the monarch is Parliament referencing relative to the English Bill of Rights - correct answer
✔✔James II
True or false: the English and american constitutions are similar in that Parliament and Congress consist
of bicameral legislature sitting in two separate chambers. - correct answer ✔✔True
Which document is this quote from:
No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or disposed or outlawed or banished or in any way destroyed
nor will we go upon him nor send upon him, except by the legal judgment oh his peers or by the land of
the land - correct answer ✔✔Magna Charta and one of the rights elaborated from arbitrary
imprisonment
In England, English common law was essential to the English constitution. In the American Constitution,
English common law is no explicitly written; however, English common law is underwritten within
"invisible" or "unwritten" constitutional principles. When assessing the American Constitution, we refer
to these unwritten principles as what kinds of powers? - correct answer ✔✔implied powers
The concept of equal punishment according to the crime is first mentioned in the Magna Carta.
According to the document, a crime should only be amerced according to what? - correct answer ✔✔the
offense
At the beginning of the Magna Carta and the Petition of Rights, the following phrase is used to preface
the documents "The Petition exhibited to his majesty by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal." This is first
used to acknowledge what? - correct answer ✔✔That God has granted them permission to govern the
people and write the King
Parliament accuses the Monarch of disarming Protestant when at the same time who was both armed
and employed contrary to the law? - correct answer ✔✔Papists
In a broad sense, the English Bill of Rights claims that the Monarch has imposed illegal and cruel
punishments in addition to what? - correct answer ✔✔excessive fines
The American colonies enjoyed a hands-off rule for the first part of their history. Which event ended in
1763 and brought about a change in the hand-off policy that England had over the colonies? - correct
answer ✔✔the french and indian war
The British Parliament began to enact a series of taxes and levies over the colonies to pay for the debt
that the British government had incurred. What event in 1773 was in direct response to one of these
acts: The Tea Act? - correct answer ✔✔The Boston Tea Party
One of the points of disagreement in the first Continental Congress was the authority of Parliament and
how limited its legislative authority was over the colonies. What was the conclusion reached by the
Congress? - correct answer ✔✔Parliament could regulate trade but not tax the colonies
In the preamble of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson presented an argument for the right of
revolution and succession. What authority did Jefferson draw from? - correct answer ✔✔the creator
What did the Supreme Court hold in Calder v. Bull about Ex Post Facto Laws? - correct answer ✔✔They
only applied to criminal laws
Why, according to Friedrich Hayek, is the judiciary keeping the executive branch in check crucial to the
rule of law? - correct answer ✔✔To ensure that the policies implemented by the executive are what
Congress passed
What document was drafted in 1787 and then ratified in 1789? - correct answer ✔✔The US constitution
Which American Framer, from Virginia, was the main writer of the U.S. Constitution? - correct answer
✔✔james madison
Which of the following individuals sat on the committee with Thomas Jefferson that was responsible for
crafting the Declaration of Independence? - correct answer ✔✔johns adams
In which year was the U.S. Constitution drafted? - correct answer ✔✔1787
Marbury v. Madison - correct answer ✔✔This case establishes the Supreme Court's power of Judicial
Review
enumerated powers - correct answer ✔✔Powers specifically given to Congress in the Constitution;
including the power to collect taxes, coin money, regulate foreign and interstate commerce, and declare
war.
implied powers - correct answer ✔✔Powers not specifically mentioned in the constitution
Residual Powers - correct answer ✔✔Power that is retained by the government after other powers were
distributed to other authorities in the course of elections or by the process of delegation.
Article 1 focuses on which branch? - correct answer ✔✔Legislative: law making
Article 2 focuses on which branch? - correct answer ✔✔the executive: law enforcing
Article 3 focuses on which branch? - correct answer ✔✔the judiciary: adjudication/ resolving disputes
Sir Gilbert Humphrey - correct answer ✔✔English Liberties or Rights of Englishman are conveyed across
the Atlantic. These rights become part of the chartered liberties of every subsequent English Colony.
Massachusetts body of liberties - correct answer ✔✔first legal code established by European colonists in
New England, incorporate common law
Powers - correct answer ✔✔enumerated expressed, implied powers, concurrent powers and residual
power
Richard Overton, an arrow against all tyrants - correct answer ✔✔for natural by birth, all men are
equally alike borne to propriety, liberty, and freedom; Birthright and privilege; every man by nature
being king, priest and prophet
Francis Schaeffer
"The law of Law" - correct answer ✔✔True christian life does not mean being born again; not a desire to
get rid of taboos. not just outward but inward, positive in inward reality;love man
