GOVT 200 - Ferdon Exam 6 with verified answers

GOVT 200 - Ferdon Exam 6individual self-government - correct answer What is the first level of human jurisdiction? We are responsible for governing ourselves - correct answer What exactly is meant by the phrase "self-government"? If government becomes total, then government becomes sovereign and people lose their self-government - correct answer Why is the question of jurisdiction not solely a division of authority and power between God and civil government? - correct answer What is a mediating structure and its relationship to the public sphere of life? Truth - correct answer How does God generally govern man? God is supreme and man should govern himself - correct answer What are the subordinate principles of government derived from God's authority to govern supremely? Limited government - correct answer How would Christian self-government manifest itself externally in regards to a civil form of government? If I cannot govern myself, how am I expected to govern others? - correct answer Reconsider the quote by Hugo Grotius in his Politick Maxims (1586, 1654) and be able to identify its significance for Christian self-government. Read by many of the Founding Fathers and wrote Commentaries on the Laws of England - correct answer What is the significance of Sir William Blackstone? A rule by which things occur - correct answer How does William Blackstone define law in its most general sense? Commentaries on the Laws of England - correct answer What great work is Blackstone best known for? A (moral) law that is higher than government - correct answer How does Blackstone define law of nature? God has given us a written version of the law of nature through the Holy Scriptures - correct answer Why does Blackstone assert the necessity for special revolution? Pre-existing law is the law of nature - correct answer When discussing the nature of law and jurisprudence, what is meant by pre-existing law? Man-made law should not contradict (should reflect the character of) pre-existing law - correct answer What is to be the relationship between pre-existing law and man-made law such as constitutions? Governments are instituted to preserve ordered liberty in a fallen world - correct answer Why are governments and man-made law instituted? Christian jurisprudence - correct answer What sort of jurisprudence recognizes God as divine law-giver, the existence of absolute law, and a pre-existing law order? General and Special Revelation (direct reference to Scripture) - correct answer What is meant by the phrase "laws of nature and nature's God" in the preamble to the Declaration of Independence? Countries are not sovereign in other nations' affairs - correct answer Why is sphere sovereignty necessary for nation-states? Law of Nations is mentioned in the actual document - correct answer How is Law of Nations theory evidenced in the Declaration of Independence?