Foundations of the State and a Democratic Government

A state must have:

• Jobs

• Welfare

• Cars

• Sovereignty

A state must have a government.

• True

• False

This origin theory says the state was given its power from God.

• Force

• Evolutionary

• Divine Right

• Social Contract

The 1st stage of development came from a family or tribe.

• Force

• Evolutionary

• Divine Right

• Social Contract

If a state originated by this theory, Its citizens probably have no choice in govt decisions & laws are enforced by the military.

• Force

• Evolutionary

• Divine Right

• Social Contract

If a state originated from this theory, its citizens are allowed to vote for their government's decisions.

• Force

• Evolutionary

• Divine Right

• Social Contract

If a state originated by this theory, Its citizens probably have no choice in govt decisions & laws are enforced by the military.

• Force

• Evolutionary

• Divine Right

• Social Contract

If a state originated from this theory, its citizens are allowed to vote for their government's decisions.

• Force

• Evolutionary

• Divine Right

• Social Contract

The Social Contract theory says the state began from a voluntary act of free people.

• True

• False

“In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain . . . no arts, no letters, no society, and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”

—Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651

What is the “condition” that Hobbes is talking about?

• the state of government

• the state of nature

• the social contract

• monarchy