Society & Government
What brings people happiness, cooperation, and safety?
What is society?
Government is creaed to protect people's _____.
What are rights?
A ruler with total power is called a -
What is a a king (or monarch)
Power passed from parent to child is called _____ rule.
What is hereditary?
Common Sense was written by _____.
Who is Thomas Paine?
What is created because people sometimes behave badly?
What is government?
Paine explains government using an example of people living on an _____.
What is an island?
Some people believed kings were chosen by _____.
What is God?
A good ruler does not always have a _____ child.
What is a capable (or wise) child?
The pamphlet was published in the year _____
What is 1776?
What is government?
Governement becomes necessary as a population _____.
What is grows?
Paine argues that giving on eperson too much power is-
What is dangerous?
Paine believed leadership should be _____, not inherited.
What is earned?
America being ruled by a distant island refers to _____.
What is England (or Great Britain)?
Which exists to help people work together peacefully?
What is society?
One purpose of government is to settle _____ between people.
What are disagreements (or conflicts).
Kings often act in their own interest instead of the -
What is the people's interest?
Hereditary rule can lead to _____ or cruel rulers.
What are weak?
Paine argued that America was strong enough to _____ itself.
What is govern?
Which shouild interfere the least while still protecting rights?
What is good governement?
The main job of government is to protect freedom and _____.
What is property?
Paine uses the Bible to show that kingship led to _____ and suffering.
What are problems or wars?
The main problem with hereditary rule is that birth does not equal _____.
What is ability (or skill)?
The main idea of Common Sense is that America should _____.
What is become independent?