Government 1st Six Weeks Test

John Locke believed these people had these type of right?

• No Rights

• Freedom Rights

• Natural Rights

• Unnatural Rights

According to John Locke what must the government do with people's rights?

• Get rid of them

• Protect Them

• Get Over them

Which enlightenment thinker believed that a government is needed to keep order?

• Voltaire

• Hobbes

• Rousseau

• Beccaria

Who believed the government should protect a person's three natural rights: life, liberty, and property?

• Rousseau

• Beccaria

• Wollstonecraft

• Locke

Baron de Montesquieu developed this idea for government

• One House Congress

• Checks and Balances

• No House Congress

• The President

Rousseau believed in the idea of what for the government?

• Majority Rule

• Dictatorship

• Nobody Votes

What is a social contract?

• an agreement between all the leaders of the country

• an agreement between the people of the country and the government

• an agreement between you and a record label to release your next musical hit

Which of the following best describes divine right?

• The idea that humans are endowed at birth with certain rights       

• The belief that God gave rulers the right to rule and answer only to him   

• The idea that the majority of people in a group or country have the right to make laws

• The belief that God endowed mankind with the rights and freedoms

- Tabula Rasa
- Natural Rights
- Social Contract
All of the ideas above were created by ... ?

• John Locke

• Montesquieu

• Rosseau

• Voltaire

“… that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”  

The quote above was used by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence.  Which philosophical ideal is used by Jefferson here?

• Social Contract

• Natural Rights

• General Will

• Separation of Power