Government and Power
The institution created to make and enforce rules for a society.
What is government?
This philosopher believed that people needed a strong government to prevent chaos and conflict.
Who is Hobbes?
A government ruled by a king or queen.
What is a monarchy?
The study of government, citizenship, and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
What is civics?
A freedom or protection that citizens are entitled to have.
What is a right?
According to social contract theory, this is the condition people would live in without an organized government.
What is a state of nature?
This philosopher argued that people are born with natural rights, including life, liberty, and property.
Who is Locke?
A government in which one person has most or all of the political power.
What is a dictatorship?
A person who is legally recognized as a member of a country.
What is a citizen?
Something citizens are expected to do to contribute to their community or country.
What is a responsibility?
The agreement between people and their government in which people give up some freedom in exchange for order and protection.
What is the Social Contract?
Both Hobbes and Locke believed that government was created through an agreement between people and the government
What is the social contract?
A government in which citizens have the power to participate in choosing their leaders and making decisions.
What is a democracy?
Give three ways a person can become a U.S. citizen.
Birth in the United States, birth to U.S. citizen parents under applicable law, or naturalization.
Which category does this belong to?
"Serving on a jury when called."
What is a duty?
A government has power because its people agree that it has the right to govern. This idea is called...
What is consent of the governed?
Daily Double!!
A government repeatedly violates its citizens' rights. Which philosopher would be more likely to argue that the people have a right to replace that government?
Locke
A government controlled by a small group of people.
What is an oligarchy?
The legal process through which an eligible person who was not born a U.S. citizen becomes a U.S. citizen.
What is naturalization?
A student volunteers at a food pantry, listens respectfully to people with different opinions, and works to improve their community. What concept does this best demonstrate?
What is civic virtue?
Why might a society want to limit the power of its government? Give two reasons.
To protect individual rights, prevent abuse of power, and/or prevent the government from becoming too powerful.
Clue: Complete the comparison:
Hobbes: People need government primarily for ________.
Locke: Government exists primarily to ________.
Hobbes — security/order. Locke — protect natural rights.
A society has no organized government or central authority. Which term best describes this situation?
What is an anarchy?
Why is studying civics important? .
Allows citizens to participate in a democracy which is necessary for it to continue
Name three ways citizens can participate in government and explain how one of them can help protect the common good.
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