Social Contract Theory

A voluntary agreement among individuals to secure their rights and welfare by creating a government and abiding by its rules.

• Capitalism

• Democracy

• Social Contract

• Business Agreement

English philosopher who advocated the idea of a "social contract" in which government powers are derived from the consent of the governed and in which the government serves the people; also said people have natural rights to life, liberty and property.

• Buddah

• Paul McCartney

• John Locke

• George Washington

This person believed that people are born selfish and need a strong central authority.

This English philosopher who advocated the idea of a "social contract" in which government powers are derived from the consent of the governed and in which the government serves the people; also said people have natural rights to life, liberty and property.

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

__________believed that people are born selfish and need a strong central authority

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