Age Of Revolutions

What is Natural Law?

• Rules which govern our world and which are able to be discovered through reasoning.
• Rules which are given to us through biblical scripture
• Laws that govern animals and creatures in mother nature
• none of the above

What is a Social Contract?

• taking control of the personal liberties of politicians and providing anarchy for all citizens
• Agreement by which government controls the organization of politics
• Agreement by which people give up their freedoms to join an organized society.
  
• A contract where social human beings enter a society to protect their property and not their lives

What are Natural Rights?

• Rights that are given to us when citizens turn into adults
• Rights we have from birth which cannot be taken away.  (Life, Liberty, Property)
• Personal freedoms that we receive when we decide to vote
• Personal rights that are given to us by the people and guaranteed by the signing of the Declaration of Rights of Man

By the 1700’s many__________       ________felt that they could fix social, political, and economic problems they saw in Europe through reasoning.

•  European thinkers 
• European politicians
• American industrialists
• British parliament advising monarchs

This type of government gives all powers to the king in a nation.

• Constitutional Monarchy
• Absolute Monarchy
• Oligarchy
• Democracy

The idea that a monarch gets their power from God.

• Absolutism
• Balance of Power
• Divine Right
• Sacraments

Divine Right of Kings is the theory that . . . 

• Kings are Gods and all people must worship the king
• Kings rule because God chose them to rule
• Kings should only be advised by clergy
• Kings should be running the churches in their kingdoms

Thinkers in the “Enlightenment” believed they could use reason and “natural law” to...

• cure the problems they saw in society.
• help kings rule better
• overcome spiritual barriers in France
• create the constitution

Which thinker believed that we are naturally cruel, greedy, and selfish. People in their natural state would fight, rob, and oppress each other?

• Thomas Hobbes
• Thomas Detanquinjin
• John Locke
• Thomas Locke

According to Thomas Hobbes, what would life be like without government?

• Without control, life would be “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
• Without government, people would naturally encourage each other to strive for the best
• Without government, citizens would have no freedom in politics.
• Without government, life would joyous relentless, and full of happiness.