Limbaugh's US Government and Enlightenment Quiz

The institution through which society makes and enforces its policies:

• compromise

• elections

• government

According to Hobbes, without a common power to keep them in awe and under control humans would exist in a state of:

• peace and harmony

• mutual indifference

• war of every man against every man

Thomas Hobbes explains his views on freedom and government in

• Common Sense

• Leviathan

• Second Treatise of Civil Government

What is the best definition of a republic?

• citizens vote on laws in an assembly

• citizens elect officials to represent them in the government

• power is held by one person who rules by force

What is the best definition of a direct democracy?

• citizens vote on laws in an assembly

• citizens elect officials to represent them in the government

• power is held by one person who rules by force

John Locke explains his views on freedom and government in

• Common Sense

• Leviathan

• Second Treatise of Civil Government

According to John Locke, a primary purpose of government is

• The protection of private property

• Economic prosperity

• To guarantee all citizens happiness

A major weakness of the Central Government with the Articles of Confederation was

• No Ability to Tax

• High Taxes

• Low Taxes

The civilization that gave us a Republic mode of government

• Egyptian

• Greek

• Roman

A major argument for American independence found in the Declaration of Independence was that the British

• censored colonists' representatives in Parliament

• refused to sell products to the colonists

• deprived colonists of their natural rights