World History CFA 1

Excerpt from John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government

​"Of Slavery"

Section 22. The Natural Liberty of Man is to be free from any Superior Power on Earth, and not to be under the Will or Legislative Authority of Man, but to have only the Law of Nature for his Rule. The Liberty of Man, in Society, is to be under no other Legislative Power, but that established by consent, in the Common-wealth, nor but what the Dominion of any Will, or Restraint of any Law, but what the Legislative shall enact, according to the Trust put in it…

Excerpt from John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government

Section 24. This is the perfect condition of Slavery, which is nothing else, but the State of War continued, between a lawful Conquerour, and a Captive. For, if once Compactenter between them, and make an agreement for a limited Power on the one side, and Obedience on the other, the State of War and Slavery ceases, as long as the Compact endures. For, as has been said, no Man can, by agreement, pass over to another that which he hath not in himself, a Power over his own Life…

Excerpt from John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government

Section 222. The reason why men enter into society, is the preservation of their property; and the end why they chose and authorize a legislative, is, that there may be laws made, and rules set, as guards and fences to the properties of all the members of the society, to limit the power, and moderate the dominion, of every part and member of the society: for since it can never be supposed to be the will of the society, that the legislative should have a power to destroy that which every one designs to secure, by entering into society, and for which the people submitted themselves to legislators of their own making; whenever the legislators endeavour to take away, and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any farther obedience, and are left to the common refuge, which God hath provided for all men, against force and violence… by this breach of trust they forfeit the power the people had put into their hands for quite contrary ends, and it devolves to the people, who have a right to resume their original liberty, and, by the establishment of a new legislative, (such as they shall think fit) provide for their own safety and security, which is the end for which they are in society.”

Multiple Choice

 This author and his writings were a part of the

• Age of Exploration

• Age of Enlightenment

• Intellectual Revolution

• Scientific Revolution

Multiple Choice

 Section 222 promotes which of the following democratic principles?

• Consent of the Governed

• Humane laws

• Right of Revolution

• Separation of Powers

Multiple Choice

Section 22 promotes which of the following democratic principles?

• Consent of the Governed

• Humane laws

• Right of Revolution

• Separation of Powers

Multiple Choice

The central argument this author is making can best be described as

• God has chosen all government rulers

• Independence is built by military might

• A capitalist economic system is necessary for democracy.

• The power of the government is derived from the governed.

Multiple Choice

How would political power shift based on the type of government Locke is proposing?

• The King has more power.

• The Church has more power.

• The People have more power.

• None of the above