Foundations of Government: Rights and Limited Government

Foundations of Government: Rights and Limited Government

Multiple Choice

Review: What did Thomas Hobbes call the time before government?

• Time before law

• Nation of evil

• The Purge

• State of Nature

Multiple Choice

According to the edpuzzle video, when people agree to work together instead of fight or steal, this agreement is called a ?

• Agreement

• Contract

• Notary

• Govern

So we have a government, what now?

• So we learned that we need a government with Thomas Hobbes.

• But what should the government actually do?

Enter John Locke

• Locke was an English philosopher who was the first to write about "Natural Rights"

• Natural rights are things you are born with and can not be taken away.

• The big three: "Life, liberty, property."

Multiple Select

What were the big three natural rights according to John Locke?

• Pursuit of happiness

• Liberty

• Property

• Money

• Life

What does government have to do with rights?

• According to Locke, the government's job is to protect your rights.

• If someone tries to stop you from practicing your rights, the government should step in and help you and punish the offender.

Multiple Choice

According to John Locke, what was the job of the government?

• To protect people's rights

• To tax people

• To fight wars to defend autocracy

• To suggest new menu items for Taco Bell.

What happens if the government doesn't do its job?

• Locke says that the people should get rid of that government and replace it with a new one.

• He believed the government answered to the people!

Multiple Choice

According to John Locke, what should the people do if the government doesn't protect your rights?

• People should get free stuff

• People should change the government.

• People should move to another country with more freedom

• People should go along with what the government says.

Differences between Hobbes and Locke

• Hobbes believed in more security, less freedom

• Locke believed in more freedom, less security.

• Hobbes believed in a powerful king.

• Locke believed that people should choose their leaders.

Multiple Choice

Which statement is true?

• Hobbes wanted people to vote for their leaders.

• John Locke believed in the state of nature.

• John Locke thought that the people should hold the government accountable.

• Hobbes did not believe in the state of nature.

Let's not forget Rousseau

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau is another philosopher but a bit more "out there."

• He believed in direct democracy, people should not elect leaders but get together and make laws themselves.

• He also believed man was inherently good.

Multiple Choice

Rousseau believed in what type of democracy?

• Direct Democracy

• Representative Democracy

• Anarchical Democracy

• Monarchical Democracy

What about non-European ideas of government?

• Many Middle Eastern writers shared similar ideas about government

Ibn Khaldun

• Ibn Khaldun shared many ideas that Locke would later support.

• For instance, Ibn Khaldun believed the government should be, "should be restrained to a minimum for as a necessary evil, it is the constraint of men by other men."

Multiple Choice

Which English philosopher shared ideas of limited government with Ibn Khaldun?

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau