C963 WGU Questions with Verified Answers (Correct Update)
Question 1: Natrual rights
Answer: Life, Liberty, and Property
Question 2: John Locke
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.
Question 3: State of Nature
Answer: Hypothetical condition assumed to exist in the absence of government where human beings
live in "complete" freedom and general equality.
Question 4: Due Process
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
Question 5: Social Contract
Answer: A voluntary agreement among individuals to secure their rights and welfare by creating a
government and abiding by its rules.
Question 6: Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
Answer: One of the first individuals to contribute to the idea of the social contract was a
pre-Enlightenment English philosopher
Question 7: Leviathan (1651): Thomas Hobbes
Answer: Hobbes argues that society is not something natural and immutable, but rather it is something
created by us.
Question 8: Labor Movement
Answer: the formation of labor unions, during the 1880's, for the workers to receive better treatment
by
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, Question 9: Constitution
Answer: A document which spells out the principles by which a government runs and the fundamental
laws that govern a society
Question 10: Bill of Rights
Answer: The first ten amendments to the Constitution
Question 11: Declaration of Independence
Answer: the document recording the proclamation of the second Continental Congress (4 July 1776)
asserting the independence of the colonies from Great Britain
Question 12: Thomas Jefferson
Answer: Wrote the Declaration of Independence
Question 13: Shays's Rebellion (1786-1787)
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
Question 14: Articles of Confederation
Answer: A weak constitution that governed America during the Revolutionary War.
Question 15: Federalist no. 51
Answer: Argues that separation of powers within the national government is the best way to prevent
the concentration of power in the hands of one person or a single group.
Question 16: First Amendment
Answer: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people
peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Question 17: Second Amendment
Answer: Right to keep and bear arms
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Question 1: Natrual rights
Answer: Life, Liberty, and Property
Question 2: John Locke
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.
Question 3: State of Nature
Answer: Hypothetical condition assumed to exist in the absence of government where human beings
live in "complete" freedom and general equality.
Question 4: Due Process
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
Question 5: Social Contract
Answer: A voluntary agreement among individuals to secure their rights and welfare by creating a
government and abiding by its rules.
Question 6: Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
Answer: One of the first individuals to contribute to the idea of the social contract was a
pre-Enlightenment English philosopher
Question 7: Leviathan (1651): Thomas Hobbes
Answer: Hobbes argues that society is not something natural and immutable, but rather it is something
created by us.
Question 8: Labor Movement
Answer: the formation of labor unions, during the 1880's, for the workers to receive better treatment
by
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, Question 9: Constitution
Answer: A document which spells out the principles by which a government runs and the fundamental
laws that govern a society
Question 10: Bill of Rights
Answer: The first ten amendments to the Constitution
Question 11: Declaration of Independence
Answer: the document recording the proclamation of the second Continental Congress (4 July 1776)
asserting the independence of the colonies from Great Britain
Question 12: Thomas Jefferson
Answer: Wrote the Declaration of Independence
Question 13: Shays's Rebellion (1786-1787)
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
Question 14: Articles of Confederation
Answer: A weak constitution that governed America during the Revolutionary War.
Question 15: Federalist no. 51
Answer: Argues that separation of powers within the national government is the best way to prevent
the concentration of power in the hands of one person or a single group.
Question 16: First Amendment
Answer: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people
peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Question 17: Second Amendment
Answer: Right to keep and bear arms
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