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GOVT 200 Ferdon Final ExamWhat is the significance of the colonial endeavors of Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh? - correct answer -Brought Charters to America -Rights of Englishmen came over as well. What is the significance and date of the First Virginia Charter? - correct answer -1606 -Rights of Englishmen are brought to America What is the significance and date of The Mayflower Compact? - correct answer -1620 -America's first political covenant (Self-government) What ...

Govt 200 Ferdon FinalWhat is the nature of English Common Law? What was it informed by? How was it originally established? - correct answer English commons law was a unwritten body of law that governed England understanding of jurisdiction. - Magma Carter, cortisones precedents, Law of nature (general and special revelation) Why is it important to discuss English Common Law relative to American Constitutional history? - correct answer The significance we were previously English citizens s...

GOVT 200 Final Exam - Nature and role of 'mediating institutions' relative to individual self-government - correct answer What is the nature of English Common Law? - correct answer oral tradition, formed through the courts What is English Common Law informed by? - correct answer court decisions, precedents How was English Common Law originally established? - correct answer court decisions, precedents Why is it important to discuss English Common Law relative to American Constituti...

GOVT 200 Final Exam (Van Allen)What is the nature of English Common Law? What was it informed by? How was it originally established? - correct answer - English commons law was an unwritten body of law that governed England's understanding of jurisdiction. - Magna Carter, cortisones precedents, Law of nature (general and special revelation) Why is it important to discuss English Common Law relative to American Constitutional history? - correct answer - The significance we were previously Eng...

Govt 200 Final Exam Study GuideWhat is the nature of English Common Law? - correct answer Law common to all, also the traditional, unwritten, therefore not civil law and orally solidified How was English Common law originally established? - correct answer It was originally established through various court cases. Why is it important to discuss English Common Law relative to American Constitutional history? - correct answer This was the form of law followed during the American Revolution an...

Govt 200 Final Exam What is the general definition of English Common Law? How is English Common Law related to God's law and Biblical Christianity? In this regard, rehearse what is meant by 'Law of Nature.' - correct answer i. Law common to all, also the traditional, unwritten, therefore not civil law ii. Common law is based on the law of nature and nature's God; common law was entirely brought into American jurisprudence iii. Laws of Nature: General revelation inherent in the creation an...

GOVT 200 Quiz 2In 1885, which British noble, wrote in his book Popular Government that "the American constitution is distinctively English?" - correct answer Sir Henry Maine There are a number of important differences between the English and American constitutions. As we've discussed in class the English constitution is not a written constitution - meaning it is not contained in any single document like the American constitution in 1787. The English constitution contains three distinct cha...

GOVT 200 Quiz 3The American system of federalism divides political power between how many levels of government? 2 According to the 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, all powers not specifically given to the federal government are granted to whom? The states The States have certain obligations to the Federal government and to each other, and the Federal government has certain obligations to the States. Most of these obligations are found in which Article of the U.S. Constituti...

GOVT 200 Test 1Be able to identify the correct definition/understanding of the term 'worldview'. - correct answer Lens through which you view the world. Be able to identify the five significant worldviews which have impacted the western tradition of intellectual thought. - correct answer a. Biblical Christian worldview b. Rationalism c. Romanticism d. process e. Post-modernism f. Transcendentalism (America) or post-process philosophy (Europe) What are the main components of a wo...

GOVT 200 van allen exam 3definition of rationalism - correct answer absolutization of man's knowledge 1st presupposition of rationalism - correct answer the inherent goodness of man 2nd presupposition of rationalism - correct answer the perfectibility of man 3rd presupposition of rationalism - correct answer the inevitability of progress difference between social contracts/democracy - correct answer social contracts/democracy replaces the holy commonwealth; creation of man, not of G...