American Heritage BYU Final Exam Test Questions and Answers Rated A
Sovereignty - -ultimate political power
The Christian Calling - -people should
legitimacy - -ruling by a sanction rather pursue a "calling" where they must work hard, be
than stark necessity wise
Founding - -a conscious, deliberate act of Moral Self-Governance - -People should
creating a system of government that benefits live a righteous life on their own
the people
God's Elect - -God has already chosen
Good Society - -reasonably stable and those who will be saved, elect should build a holy
prosperous society without an oppressive community
tyranny
Corporate Community - -colonial
Human Predicament Cycle - -tyranny to settlements with economic or financial purposes
revolution to anarchy to competing groups to
tyranny
Covenant Community - -colonial
settlements based on religious or moral values
Virtue, Freedom, and Welfare - -must
balance these three things in a government,
different groups of thinkers have different ideas City upon a Hill - -a society governed by
on how to do it civil liberty that would be an example to the world
"Our Divided Political Heart" - E.J Dionne - Civil Liberty - -Men are free to do what is
-Core Values of American Society good, just, and honest
Woodard - -Individual vs community Natural Liberty - -Men are free to do what
they please, no regard for morals
Justice Chapter 1 - -doing the right thing
Mayflower Compact - -Established type of
society that early Americans wanted
John Calvin - -greatly influenced Puritan
belief, taught that salvation came through grace,
predestination Cotter Maher "A Christian at his calling" - -
Puritan view on careers
Puritans - -wanted to reform Church of
England, shaped early America's character John Winthrop "Model of Christian Charity" -
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-Create a community based on purity John Locke - -espoused natural rights,
influenced Founders
John Winthrop "Little Speech on Liberty" -
-liberty Second Treatise on Government - -state of
nature = no govt, govt is supposed to protect
peoples rights, govt needs consent of governed,
Utilitarianism - -Greatest good for the people have the right to revolt
greatest number
Mercantilism - -encourages exports,
Libertarianism - -values freedom above all restricts imports
else
Adam Smith - -wrote "the wealth of
Ancient Liberty - -Participating in nations", father of modern economics
government, community
Specialization - -focusing resources on one
telos - -purpose, end or a few goods
Rule of Law - -distinguishes if a particular Law of Supply - -as the price goes up,
law supports freedom or not suppliers will produce more of the good
Generality - -laws must be general Law of Demand - -as the price goes up,
consumers will buy less of that good
Prospectivity - -Laws must apply to future
action Shortage - -when the amount demanded is
greater than the amount supplied
Publicity - -Laws must be known and
certain Surplus - -when the amount supplied is
more than the amount demanded
Consent - -Laws must be generally agreed
upon by the people Equilibrium Price - -price where amount
demanded = amount supplied
Due process - -Laws must be administered
impartially opportunity cost - -value of the best
alternative not chosen
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Sovereignty - -ultimate political power
The Christian Calling - -people should
legitimacy - -ruling by a sanction rather pursue a "calling" where they must work hard, be
than stark necessity wise
Founding - -a conscious, deliberate act of Moral Self-Governance - -People should
creating a system of government that benefits live a righteous life on their own
the people
God's Elect - -God has already chosen
Good Society - -reasonably stable and those who will be saved, elect should build a holy
prosperous society without an oppressive community
tyranny
Corporate Community - -colonial
Human Predicament Cycle - -tyranny to settlements with economic or financial purposes
revolution to anarchy to competing groups to
tyranny
Covenant Community - -colonial
settlements based on religious or moral values
Virtue, Freedom, and Welfare - -must
balance these three things in a government,
different groups of thinkers have different ideas City upon a Hill - -a society governed by
on how to do it civil liberty that would be an example to the world
"Our Divided Political Heart" - E.J Dionne - Civil Liberty - -Men are free to do what is
-Core Values of American Society good, just, and honest
Woodard - -Individual vs community Natural Liberty - -Men are free to do what
they please, no regard for morals
Justice Chapter 1 - -doing the right thing
Mayflower Compact - -Established type of
society that early Americans wanted
John Calvin - -greatly influenced Puritan
belief, taught that salvation came through grace,
predestination Cotter Maher "A Christian at his calling" - -
Puritan view on careers
Puritans - -wanted to reform Church of
England, shaped early America's character John Winthrop "Model of Christian Charity" -
1/8
, American Heritage BYU Final Exam Test Questions and Answers Rated A
-Create a community based on purity John Locke - -espoused natural rights,
influenced Founders
John Winthrop "Little Speech on Liberty" -
-liberty Second Treatise on Government - -state of
nature = no govt, govt is supposed to protect
peoples rights, govt needs consent of governed,
Utilitarianism - -Greatest good for the people have the right to revolt
greatest number
Mercantilism - -encourages exports,
Libertarianism - -values freedom above all restricts imports
else
Adam Smith - -wrote "the wealth of
Ancient Liberty - -Participating in nations", father of modern economics
government, community
Specialization - -focusing resources on one
telos - -purpose, end or a few goods
Rule of Law - -distinguishes if a particular Law of Supply - -as the price goes up,
law supports freedom or not suppliers will produce more of the good
Generality - -laws must be general Law of Demand - -as the price goes up,
consumers will buy less of that good
Prospectivity - -Laws must apply to future
action Shortage - -when the amount demanded is
greater than the amount supplied
Publicity - -Laws must be known and
certain Surplus - -when the amount supplied is
more than the amount demanded
Consent - -Laws must be generally agreed
upon by the people Equilibrium Price - -price where amount
demanded = amount supplied
Due process - -Laws must be administered
impartially opportunity cost - -value of the best
alternative not chosen
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