C963 WGU AMERICAN POLITICS AND THE US CONSTITUTION |QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS

natural rights Correct Answer Life, Liberty, and Property John Locke Correct Answer 17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life, liberty, and property. State of Nature Correct Answer Hypothetical condition assumed to exist in the absence of government where human beings live in "complete" freedom and general equality. Due Process Correct Answer involves the government's obligation to treat all citizens fairly. Such a requirement lessens the extent to which government power can be exercised over the individual, making the power differential between the two more fair, and ensuring a general sense of political equality Social Contract Correct Answer A voluntary agreement among individuals to secure their rights and welfare by creating a government and abiding by its rules. Thomas Hobbes () Correct Answer One of the first individuals to contribute to the idea of the social contract was a pre-Enlightenment English philosopher Leviathan (1651): Thomas Hobbes Correct Answer Hobbes argues that society is not something natural and immutable, but rather it is something created by us. Labor Movement Correct Answer the formation of labor unions, during the 1880's, for the workers to receive better treatment by Constitution Correct Answer A document which spells out the principles by which a government runs and the fundamental laws that govern a society Bill of Rights Correct Answer The first ten amendments to the Constitution Declaration of Independence Correct Answer the document recording the proclamation of the second Continental Congress (4 July 1776) asserting the independence of the colonies from Great Britain Thomas Jefferson Correct Answer Wrote the Declaration of Independence Shays’ Rebellion () Correct Answer which almost resulted in potential mob rule, suggested there might be too much democracy at play, and that maybe individual liberty was going too far