The Enlightenment

What type of government do we have in the United States?

• Autocracy

• Oligarchy

• Representative democracy

• Direct democracy

This type of government is where one person, a king or queen, rules the country.

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

• Monarchy

• Junta

This type of government is where the country is ruled by a select few people.

• Democracy

• Dictatorship

• Anarchy

• Oligarchy

This type of government is characterized by one person having complete control over citizens' lives. In fact, the main leader can even change their country's constitution.

• Dictatorship

• Democracy

• Anarchy

• Junta

This specific form of Oligarchy is characterized by having a few military leaders run the country.

• Monarchy

• Direct democracy

• Anarchy

• Junta

This type of government can be described as not having a government at all.

• Anarchy

• Monarchy

• Representative democracy

• Oligarchy

The State of ______ is a thought experiment to think about what life was like before governments even existed.

• Consciousness

• Nature

• Things

• Arizona

Thomas Hobbes believed that before governments people were:

• Honest and trustworthy

• Cooperative

• Nasty and brutish

• Calm and helpful

John Locke believed that before governments people were:

• Wicked and cruel

• Not good or bad

• Loving

• Very helpful and cooperative

True or false: The social contract was a physical document that people signed.

• True

• False