Social Contract

More conservative in my thinking about the role of government and the people. 

• Hobbes

• Locke 

• Rousseau

The idea that people give up some of their power to the government in exchange for the protection of the laws that government provides.

• Social Contract Theory

• Divine Right

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Natural Rights

According to John Locke, if the government didn't protect the people's natural rights, what could the people do?

• Overthrow the government

• Petition the government for their rights

• Nothing, the people don't have rights

An agreement between a government and their people is called a ?

• Deal

• Social Contract

• Negotiation

• Win-Win

In a social contract, people agree to obey government as long as government is protecting their freedoms.

• Hobbes

• Locke

The government's power in a democracy is...

• limited usually by a document

• unlimited

• based on religious beliefs

• passed on from generation to generation

In a state of nature, there will be total chaos, violence and eventual death.

• Hobbes

• Locke

He wrote a book called 'The Leviathan.'

• Hobbes

• Locke

In a social contract, people must give up ALL their freedoms.

• Hobbes

• Locke

People are basically selfish and evil.

• Hobbes

• Locke