Hobbes and Locke

Who believed people would take whatever they wanted and harm anyone who got in their way

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• Both

Who believed people are born with nature rights.

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• Both

Who believed that a governments most important purpose was to protect the rights of people

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• Both

Who believed states develop governments voluntarily.

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• Both

Who believed the people of a state agreed of their own free will to be governed.

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• Both

_____ believed that people had the right to life, liberty, and property.

• Hobbes

• Locke

• Rousseau

• Voltaire

Which Enlightened thinker believed in a social contract between the government and those being governed?

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Rousseau

• Newton

Which thinker believed that the people had a right to rebel against government leadership if the leadership failed to protect natural rights?

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

Who believed that the power of government should be held by someone who wears a crown?

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

In a state of nature there is

• no leader to rule the people.

• the option to have whatever you have the power to take.

• chaos and conflict.

• All of the above