Social Contract

Social contract is best described as

• When a society has a consensus about its basic beliefs

• When we elect representatives to govern on our behalf

• When the people vote directly on all matters

• When people agree to obey the government as long as it protects their rights

According to Locke, why do people leave the State of Nature?

• To vote

• To protect their natural rights

• To become more powerful than their neighbors

• To promote equality

According to Jefferson, when can people alter or abolish their government?

• When the government raises taxes too much

• When the government abuses their rights

• When they don't like the results of an election

• When the politicians put milk in their bowls before the cereal

Hobbes' book was called...

• Qur'an

• Leviathan

• Odyssey

• Don Quixote

Which individual states the people surrender their rights for protection but if government does not protect the people, the people may break the contract?

• Thomas Hobbes

• Robert Livingston

• John Locke

• Thomas Jefferson

During the Enlightenment, thinkers believed that government was based on a ​ (a)   where the people of a nation gave up some ​ (b)   in exchange for ​ (c)  

• social contract

• liberties

• protected rights

• divine right

• money

• religious freedom

• new territory

• royal priviledges

When Thomas Jefferson copied John Locke's ideas about the social contract, what did he say the people had the right to do to a government who was not protecting the people's rights?

• Write a letter

• Suggest how it could be better

• Wait until they started to respect the people's rights

• Abolish it

Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Locke would all support:

• A dictatorship

• A democracy

• An absolute monarchy

• All of these

Why did Hobbes believe it was necessary to have all the power in the hands of 1 King?

• It would prevent war and chaos

• They could make rules faster

• They could declare war against enemies of the kingdom

• It would be easier to make decisions

For both Hobbes and Locke, the social contract is an agreement between...

• plaintiff and defendant

• sovereign states

• companies and shareholders

• citizens and government