Main Concepts
According to Hobbes and Locke, if citizens consent to be governed by a country’s government, they are entering into one of these, and agree to give up something (rights, power, or freedoms) in exchange for protection.
What is Social Contract?
A supreme ruler or leader that possesses the majority of all power
The Sovereign
Hobbes preferred this form of governance
What is Monarchy?
Locke preferred this form of governance
What is Democracy?
This philosopher wrote 'The Leviathan'
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
The idea that we are all born with/as a _____ _____, that gets filled with the experiences of our five senses.
What is 'Blank Slate'?
The state of being deprived of a right or privilege, especially the right to vote
Disenfranchisement
sovereignty lies where according to Hobbes?
The Monarch
John Locke believed people are born "____ and _____"
What is "free and equal"?
This philosopher wrote 'The Second Treatise on Civil Government'
Who is John Locke?
An agreement between two parties of/in society.
What is a 'social contract'?
These are the three natural rights, according to John Locke.
What are Life, Liberty, and Property?
The government was created in order to protect people from this, according to Thomas Hobbes
What is 'their own selfishness and evil'?
Sovereignty lies where according to Locke?
with the people
This person loosely referenced John Locke's "three natural rights" in the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
"Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"
The government provides what that the state of nature does not?
Protection
A body formed by a social contract, intended to protect people and their natural rights
What is Government?
According to Hobbes, this is the natural state of mankind before forming a government.
What is 'State of War'?
According to Locke, this is the natural state of mankind before forming a government.
state of nature
What is the United States of America?
The state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views.
What is Liberty?
Blank Slate;
Locke's idea that we are all born with a blank slate that gets filled up with the things we experience with our five senses
What is Tabula Rasa?
"That every man ought to endeavour peace, as far as he has hope of obtaining it; and when he cannot obtain it, that he may seek and use all helps and advantages of war."
What is Hobbes' first Law of nature?
Believed people have a right to _____ if the government does not protect their rights.
What is 'rebel'?
Thomas Hobbes was born in this year.
When was 1588?