EBCCS8- Philosophy of Government

A type government in which there is one leader who inherits power (through family)

• Monarchy
• Dictatorship
• Autoctracy
• Democracy

A type of government where a small group of people rule is called a:

• oligarchy

• theocracy

• autocracy

• anarchy

A type of government in which the people have the power

• Monarchy
• Autocracy
• Democracy
• Anarchy

What life would be like if there was no government.(Philosophers had different opinions about what life would be like)

• State of Nature
• Social Contract
• Pretocracy
• Postacracy

An agreement between the people and government in which both sides compromise in order to provide a stable society

• State of Nature
• Social Contract
• Inalienable Rights
• Dictatorship

Freedoms people automatically get when they are born

• Local Rights
• Anarchy
• State of Nature
• Natural Rights

A philosopher who believed in a social contract in which the people agreed to give up certain rights in order for other rights to be protected; if the government failed to do so, they could rebel

• Hobbes
• Locke
• Rousseau
• Montesquieu

Philosophers of the Enlightenment wanted to use __________ in all areas of life.

• A. government
• B. economics
• C. politics
• D. reason

American's used _________________'s idea of separation of powers to write the US Constitution. 

• A. Montesquieu
• B. Hobbes
• C. Rousseau
• D. Voltaire

You are born with _________________ that can't be taken away; life, liberty, property

• A. philosophe
• B. natural rights
• C. separation of power
• D. checks and balances