Unit 1: Foundations of Government

"People give up their freedom to the state in return for order and security"

• Invisible Hand Theory

• Social Contract Theory

• Divine Right Theory

• Evolutionary Theory

• Force Theory

States emerge when people needed to cooperate and survive and one person took control.

• Invisible Hand Theory

• Conspiracy Theory

• Evolutionary Theory

• Force Theory

The state evolved from the structure of ancient family groups

• Social Contract Theory

• Force Theory

• Evolutionary Theory

• Divine Right Theory

States came from European rules who proclaimed that their right to rule came from God alone

• Divine Right Theory

• Evolutionary Theory

• Social Contract Theory

• Conspiracy Theory

Government that has a Constitution that places limits on those who govern

• Authoritarian

• Oligarchy

• Constitutional

• Monarchy

Power in the hands of one person

• Authoritarian

• Oligarchy

• Dictatorship

• Democracy

All men are born good, but corrupted by society; laws are only binding when man says so

• Sir William Blackstone

• Thomas Hobbes

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• John Locke

Controls all aspects of citizens' political, social and economic lives

• Rule of Law

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Authoritarian

"The restriction of arbitrary exercise of power"

• 3/5 Compromise

• Rule of Law

• Connecticut Compromise

• Charles Louis de Montesquieu

The law of nature, as found in the Bible, is perfect and supreme; no human law should be made to contradict it

• Sir William Blackstone

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• Charles Louis de Montesquieu