CSULB POSC100 Exam#1 Study Guide fully solved 2024/2025

CSULB POSC100 Exam#1 Study GuideLiberalism - 5 core Lockean Values - correct answer - private property: protection of money and land - limited government: prevent abuse of power - individualism: people matter - equality: no divine right of Kings (nobody is born to rule over another) - free-market economy: capitalism (gov't don’t run the economy) state of nature - correct answer a concept used to show what the lives of people would have been like before societies/gov't came into existence what did Locke think of political revolutions and who should select leaders? - correct answer - legitimate/justified because he didn't believe people should rule other people by birth - the people should select leaders why, according to Locke, did people form civil society? - correct answer to protect their property and make their lives more secure what did the people give up when they left the state of nature and formed civil society? - correct answer - give up right to do whatever they wanted - give up rights to punish others, cannot take laws into own hand was Locke optimistic about man's ability to govern himself? how is this reflected in his views? - correct answer - yes - believed people were born equal with rights; limit gov't = do not need one single ruler to over everyone what did Locke think of the Divine Right of Kings Theory? - correct answer - did not believe in the idea that God picked a king - everyone is born equal and nobody was born to rule over another Declaration of Independence - ideas expressed and importance - correct answer - all men are born equal