The Declaration of Independence and the Social Contract

Hobbes & Locke believed that without government, the "state of nature" would leave humans 

• In a state of happiness
• With an abundance of resources
• More choices
• In perpetual war

What is an agreement between people and the government?

• Consent
• Natural Rights
• Social Contract
• Voting

According to Hobbes & Locke, what is the purpose of government?

• Make us happy.
• Take our money.
• Enforce order.
• Protect all people. 

Who believed that man is born evil & selfish, and needs to be controlled.  Life without a strong government would be nasty, brutish, and short

• Hobbes
• Locke

Locke believed that a good government gets its power from

• God.
• the people.
• military strength.
• a strict monarch.

Hobbes favored a 

• Monarchy
• Representative Democracy
• Direct Democracy

This person thought a natural law for protecting rights was to separate government into three branches

• Diderot
• Wollstonecraft
• Beccaria
• Montesquieu

Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Locke would all support:

• A dictatorship
• A democracy
• An absolute monarchy
• All of these

John Locke’s theory of the social contract, as developed in the United States Declaration of Independence, stated that

• the people should revolt against a government that did not protect their rights

• monarchs could rule autocratically, but they had to grant certain rights to their subjects

• legislatures should have more power than kings

• government should guarantee equal economic conditions to all people

According to the Declaration of Independence, what was an “unalienable right” that all governments should protect?

• The right to social equality
• The right to elect government officials
• The right to religious equality
• The right to personal liberty