Foundations of Government

What is the "State of Nature" according to Hobbes?

• Agreement between people and their government
• Everyone had a right to everything
• People are born with a tabula rasa - blank slate
• Life, Liberty and Property

What is the Leviathan?

• The social contract between the government and people
• Monarchy with little power
• The monster
• A way of living before governments

What are Natural Rights?

• Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
• Life, liberty and property
• Tabula rasa - born with a mind like a blank slate
• Protection from the Government

Who believes humans are born poor, nasty, brutish and short?

• John Locke
• Thomas Hobbes
• The English Monarchy
• Sir William Jones

A social contract according to Locke - states that people give up ___________ freedoms, in exchange for protection.

• all
• some
• most 
• two

Which person believed in a strong central authority was the only way to avoid the evil of war.

• Hobbes 
• Locke

Who believed that a social contract between a government should be a two way street.

• Hobbes
• Locke

If the government fails to deliver according to Locke the people can _______. 

• People can not question the government
• People can do what they want 
• People can revolt
• People have no say 

The theory that a ruler's power came from God.

• Force

• Evolutionary

• Divine Right

• Social Contract

Advocated for absolute monarch as best form of government.

• Locke

• Hobbes