Democratic Principles

The idea that citizens can change or get rid of government.

• inalienable rights

• Consent

• the right to alter or abolish

• the three natural rights

The idea that the government needs citizens' permission to govern them.

• the right to alter or abolish the government

• natural rights of life, liberty, and property

• equality before the law

• consent of the governed

The idea that government exists to protect natural rights and that people must give up some freedom to have those rights protected.

• Social Contract

• Consent of the Governed

• The right to alter or abolish the government

• None of these

Consent of the governed is...

• related to Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan

• permission from the citizens to the government to actually govern

• a way to break away from government that isn't protecting your natural rights

• All of these

Which of these is NOT a natural right?

• life

• pursuit of happiness

• property

• liberty

How did Britain break the social contract?

• they didn't treat American colonists the same as the Canadian colonists

• they ultimately failed to protect the natural rights of American Colonists

• they sided with Thomas Hobbes's view that people were naturally bad.

• they did not actually have the permission of parliament to govern

Because Britain broke the social contract they lost 1)___________________________ and the colonists exercised their right to 2)____________________________________________.

• 1) consent of the governed; 2) alter or abolish the government

• 1)the right to alter or abolish the government; 2) natural rights

• 1) natural rights; 2) alter or abolish the government

• 1) natural rights; 2) consent of the governed