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Pages in category "Theocracies" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Many countries have a state religion without the government directly deriving its powers from a divine authority or a religious authority which is directly exercising governmental powers. Since few theocracies exist in the modern world, the word "theocracy" is now used as a descriptive term for a government which enforces a state religion.
There have been cases where the term of a monarch's reign is either fixed in years or continues until certain goals are achieved: an invasion being repulsed, for instance. Republic A republic ( Latin : res publica ) is a form of government in which the country is considered a "public matter", not the private concern or property of the rulers.
For articles related to different forms of theocracy which is to say, government ruled by religious doctrine. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
It also stated that it "borders on a call for outright theocracy". [38] George M. Marsden, a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, has remarked in Christianity Today that "Reconstructionism in its pure form is a radical movement". He also wrote, "[t]he positive proposals of Reconstructionists are so far out of line with American ...
However, later critics labeled the town a "theocracy," mostly because of the position of many church leaders, including Smith, as elected city officials. That was a serious charge, as in Jacksonian America, anyone accused of theocratic rule was immediately suspect and deemed an antirepublican threat to the country. Suspicions about Mormon rule ...
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The phrase constitutional theocracy describes a form of elected government in which one single religion is granted an authoritative central role in the legal and political system. In contrast to a pure theocracy , power resides in lay political figures operating within the bounds of a constitution, rather than in the religious leadership.