Hobbes & Locke & Foundations of Gov't

According to Hobbes, state of nature is like

• a state of war

• a natural rights

• an ideal society

• tabula rosa

A social contract is NOT

• an agreement between all class members, students and teachers, of how they will act and treat one another.
• a contract of how members will cooperate for benefit of all

• an agreement of what laws each member should follow

• an agreement of how much power each member is willing to give up for safety

What ingredients need to be part of an institution, all of the following EXCEPT

• It must be a permanent

• Rules need to be defined & transparent

• Authority must be defined

• New Members must be systematically instructed

According to Hobbes, people agreed to give up some __________________ in exchange for __________________ as part of the social contract.

• rights and power / protection
• food and shelter / weapons
• security and protection / freedom
• money / goods and services

A political system in which the supreme power lies in citizens who can elect people to represent them is all of the following EXCEPT

• A Representative Democracy

• A state of nature

• Republicanism

• popular sovereignty

When was the first time in modern history that a major (powerful) government gave up some authority to its citizens?

• Magna Carta

• Declaration of Independence

• Bill of Rights

• Articles of Confederation

When the Framers of our Constitution wrote it in the summer of 1787, they began with the Preamble as a way of setting the goals for good government. They were considering the philosophers ideal of gov't....

• providing the needs of all citizens

• considering the needs of citizens

• providing an authoritarian because that is considered the common good

• providing what the elite population needed first and then consider what the average citizen

What natural rights did Locke refer to?

• Property, Happiness, Equality
• Equality, Fairness, Justice

• Life, Liberty, Property
• Life, Liberty & a pursuit of happiness

In order for a Government to be "legitimate" what must happen?

• The people must give their consent to be governed

• People need to sign a social contract

• The government must be chosen by majority vote

• people agree to work for the government

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness . . .”— The Declaration of Independence

Which Enlightenment thinker most directly influenced the notion expressed in this passage?

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke