C963 Questions with Verified Answers (Correct Update)
Question 1: Natural Rights
Answer: the idea that all humans are born with rights, which include the right to life, liberty, and
property
Question 2: Due Process
Answer: The belief that people are free and equal by natural right, and that this in turn requires that all
people give their consent to be governed; espoused by John Locke and influential in the writing of the
declaration of independence. A social contract
Question 3: Social Contract Theory
Answer: The belief that people are free and equal by natural right, and that this in turn requires that all
people give their consent to be governed; espoused by John Locke and influential in the writing of the
declaration of independence.
Question 4: What is it called when people make an agreement between themselves and the
government?
Answer: A social contract
Question 5: According to the social contract theory, what is the origin of society?
Answer: Society is the product of human desire and effort.
Question 6: What did John Locke view as the most important protections under the social
contract?
Answer: Liberty and property.
Question 7: What describes John Locke's view of the state of nature?
Answer: peaceful and consisted of rational human beings.
Question 8: Which three statements describe characteristics of a social contract?
Answer: A definition of human nature A collective expression of a collectively shared interest A
specification of natural rights.
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, Question 9: In what two ways is the state of nature important for constructing a social contract?
Answer: The state of nature gives definitions to natural rights The state of nature gives definition to
what it means to be human
Question 10: Why is it important to know what the quality of life is like in the state of nature?
Answer: It explains the incentive for working cooperatively with others. It helps frame the type of
social contract that is needed to make individual life better
Question 11: What is the purpose of a social contract?
Answer: To acknowledge and protect natural rights.
Question 12: What is an important weakness of a social contract?
Answer: Social contracts require consensus
Question 13: Which statements are true about natural rights?
Answer: They impart an equality of being among all people. They let you do what you need to survive
and be secure
Question 14: Which statements are true concerning the state of nature?
Answer: Permits a philosophical definition of human nature. Is a thought experiment upon which a
definition of proper society and government are built
Question 15: What conditions are required for a social contract to work? Select the
Answer: Consensus among those whom the social contract applies to Uniformity of ability and
purpose among those who agree to the social contract
Question 16: Which of these describes the theory of the social contract? Select the one correct
answer.
Answer: Society is not natural, but created by the people.
Question 17: What are social contracts constructed to be compatible with? Select the one
correct answer.
Answer: Human Nature and Natural Rights
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Question 1: Natural Rights
Answer: the idea that all humans are born with rights, which include the right to life, liberty, and
property
Question 2: Due Process
Answer: The belief that people are free and equal by natural right, and that this in turn requires that all
people give their consent to be governed; espoused by John Locke and influential in the writing of the
declaration of independence. A social contract
Question 3: Social Contract Theory
Answer: The belief that people are free and equal by natural right, and that this in turn requires that all
people give their consent to be governed; espoused by John Locke and influential in the writing of the
declaration of independence.
Question 4: What is it called when people make an agreement between themselves and the
government?
Answer: A social contract
Question 5: According to the social contract theory, what is the origin of society?
Answer: Society is the product of human desire and effort.
Question 6: What did John Locke view as the most important protections under the social
contract?
Answer: Liberty and property.
Question 7: What describes John Locke's view of the state of nature?
Answer: peaceful and consisted of rational human beings.
Question 8: Which three statements describe characteristics of a social contract?
Answer: A definition of human nature A collective expression of a collectively shared interest A
specification of natural rights.
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, Question 9: In what two ways is the state of nature important for constructing a social contract?
Answer: The state of nature gives definitions to natural rights The state of nature gives definition to
what it means to be human
Question 10: Why is it important to know what the quality of life is like in the state of nature?
Answer: It explains the incentive for working cooperatively with others. It helps frame the type of
social contract that is needed to make individual life better
Question 11: What is the purpose of a social contract?
Answer: To acknowledge and protect natural rights.
Question 12: What is an important weakness of a social contract?
Answer: Social contracts require consensus
Question 13: Which statements are true about natural rights?
Answer: They impart an equality of being among all people. They let you do what you need to survive
and be secure
Question 14: Which statements are true concerning the state of nature?
Answer: Permits a philosophical definition of human nature. Is a thought experiment upon which a
definition of proper society and government are built
Question 15: What conditions are required for a social contract to work? Select the
Answer: Consensus among those whom the social contract applies to Uniformity of ability and
purpose among those who agree to the social contract
Question 16: Which of these describes the theory of the social contract? Select the one correct
answer.
Answer: Society is not natural, but created by the people.
Question 17: What are social contracts constructed to be compatible with? Select the one
correct answer.
Answer: Human Nature and Natural Rights
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