Social Contract

The idea that people give up some of their power to the government in exchange for the protection of the laws that government provides.

• Social Contract Theory

• Divine Right

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Natural Rights

The right to life, liberty, and property are known as your...

• natural rights

• social contract

• natural beauty

• popular sovereignty

The idea that government power comes from the people.

• natural rights

• social contract

• popular sovereignty

• salons

Which document was based on the Enlightenment ideals and established the separation of the colonies from Britain?

• English Bill of Rights
• US Constitution
• Declaration of Independence
• Declaration of the Rights of Man

What were John Locke's 3 natural rights?

• Life, Liberty, pursuit of happiness

• Live, Laugh, Love

• Life, Liberty, Property

• Life, Speech, Religion

According to John Locke, if the government didn't protect the people's natural rights, what could the people do?

• Overthrow the government

• Petition the government for their rights

• Nothing, the people don't have rights

A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

• Social Contract

• Democracy

• Capitalism

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A voluntary agreement among individuals to secure their rights and welfare by creating a government and abiding by its rules.

• Capitalism

• Democracy

• Social Contract

• Business Agreement

A movement that began in Europe in the late 1600s as people began examining the natural world, society, and government; also called the age of reason

• Enlightment

• Protestant Reformation

• Spanish Inquisition

• Crusades

An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

• Capitalism

• Communism

• Manorialism

• Agriculture