WGU C 963 Lesson Quizzes and Unit Tests, With Questions And Answers
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WGU C 963 Lesson Quizzes and Unit Tests, With Questions And Answers.Unit 2 Lesson 1: Social Contract Theory
1. Which statement describes characteristics of a social contract? Select the three correct answers.
a. A specification of natural rights
b. A definition of human nature
c. A manifestatio...
which statement describes characteristics of a social contract select the three correct answers
in what way is the state of nature
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Unit 2 Lesson 1: Social Contract Theory
1. Which statement describes characteristics of a social contract? Select the three correct answers.
a. A specification of natural rights
b. A definition of human nature
c. A manifestation of the will of God
d. A collective expression of a collectively shared interest
Social contacts reflect who we are, the rights we possess, and the interests we share. Social contracts define us as
human.
2. In what way is the state of nature important for constructing a social contract? Select the two correct answers.
a. The state of nature offers an ideal in which a social contract should seek to emulate.
b. The state of nature gives definition to natural rights.
c. The state of nature gives definition to what it means to be human.
d. The state of nature is fictional and offers nothing meaningful for constructing a social contract.
Society should be a reflection of what it means to be human, and natural rights must be acknowledged and
protected in a social contract.
3. Why is it important to know what the quality of life is like in the state of nature? Select the two correct answers.
a. It provides the basis for a measure of human progress.
b. It explains the incentive for working cooperatively with others.
c. It helps to frame the type of social contract that is needed to make individual life better.
d. It provides a utopian goal for society to try and realize.
The reality is that how bad or good life is in the state of nature will guide the need to cooperate with others, and the
subsequent social contract will help overcome the drawbacks experienced in the state of nature.
4. What is the purpose of a social contract? Select the one correct answer.
a. To acknowledge and protect natural rights
b. To realize the will of God
c. To create natural rights
Social contracts are created to acknowledge and protect natural rights.
5. What is an important weakness of a social contract? Select the one correct answer.
a. Social contracts are fixed.
b. Social contracts don't aspire to create a perfect moral order.
c. Social contracts require consensus.
d. All social contracts eventually fail
Consensus is difficult to obtain in any society, which makes social contracts difficult to implement.
6. Which statements are true about natural rights? (Choose the two correct answers.)
a. They compel the creation of democratic government.
b. They impart an equality of being among all people.
c. They are given by the government and not God.
d. They let you do what you need to survive and be secure.
Since all people share the same set of natural rights given by God, they cannot be interfered with by a government.
,7. Which statements are true concerning the state of nature? Select the two correct answers.
a. Describes the relationship between human beings and animals.
b. Suggests that human beings are naturally social
c. Is a thought experiment upon which a definition of proper society and government are built
d. Permits a philosophical definition of human nature.
Enlightenment philosophers used the state of nature to define human nature and argued for a proper society and
government based on that nature.
8. What conditions are required for a social contract to work? Select the two correct answers.
a. A commitment to toleration
b. The desire for a utopian society among those who want the social contract
c. Consensus among those whom the social contract applies to
d. Uniformity of ability and purpose among those who agree to the social contract
The conditions needed for a social contract to work include consensus among those involved in the social contract
and a uniformity of ability and purpose among those who agree to it.
9. Which of these describes the theory of the social contract? Select the one correct answer.
a. Society is not natural but created by the people.
b. Society was created by God.
c. We must accept society as it is since it was naturally created.
d. The people do not control society, but society controls the people.
The social contract acknowledges that the people are in relationship with the government and there are obligations
the citizens have to a society.
10. What are social contracts constructed to be compatible with? Select the one correct answer.
a. Ordinary Rights and Government Rights
b. Direct and Representative Democracies
c. Human Nature and Natural Rights
d. Nature and God
The social contract recognizes both human nature and natural rights and when constructed, natural rights are a
central part because they are too important to our individual lives.
,Unit 2 Lesson 2: Enlightened Ideas in the Founding Documents
1. Which was designed with a concern for the tyranny of factional majority?
a. The Bill of rights
b. The Declaration of Independence
c. The Social Contract
d. The Constitution
The potential for the tyranny of factional majority was a key consideration at the time of the drafting of the
Constitution. The framers drew upon Montesquieu's principles in an effort to offset factions.
2. What is the Enlightenment? Select the two correct answers.
a. The source of our ideas about natural rights
b. Where democratic government is invented.
c. A period of Western European history following the Middle Ages.
d. A revival of Roman Catholicism.
The Enlightenment, which took place after the Middle Ages, 1650-1800, occurred mainly in Great Britain,
France, and Germany and its philosophy produced the idea of natural rights.
3. Why does the Enlightenment influence American politics and government? Select the three correct answers.
a. Ideas of the Enlightenment frame the colonists' response to British violations of natural rights.
b. Those immigrating to the American colonies are attracted to the Enlightenment's ideas of liberty and
property.
c. The colonists are attracted to the idea of the divine right of kings.
d. The colonists have a long history of self-government, consistent with the Enlightenment's ideas about
government by consent.
Those who settled the American colonies were seeking freedom and opportunity, and Locke's ideas about the
consent to be governed and the right to rebellion had a major influence in the establishment of American
government. Early Americans were not drawn to the idea of the divine right of kings.
4. How do conflicting ideas of the Enlightenment influence American government and politics? Select the two
correct answers.
a. The conflict among ideas leads to an increasingly undemocratic system of government.
b. The conflict between popular government and the separation of powers creates an ideal balance of
interests.
c. The Constitution sets up a system of government that isn't favorable to the democratic expression of
the popular will.
d. The protection of private property can interfere with the government's dealing with important social
needs.
The separation of powers in the Constitution works to undermine popular democratic input and control, but
even when dealing with important social needs, protection of private property limits the government's
actions.
, 5. Which ideas are embodied in the Declaration of Independence? Select the two correct answers.
a. The natural rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness
b. The idea that governments are created by people to protect their natural rights
c. The purpose of government is to secure justice for all people
d. The ideas of Thomas Hobbes
The Declaration specifically mentions life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as well as the idea that people
have the right to create or abolish governments if their natural rights are at risk.
6. In what key ways does the Constitution differ from the Declaration of Independence? Select the two correct
answers.
a. The Constitution elevates the rights of property.
b. The Constitution expands the list of natural rights.
c. The Constitution is more concerned with controlling rather than expressing the popular will.
d. The Constitution makes justice more important than liberty.
While the Declaration emphasized liberty and expressing the popular will, the Constitution was designed to
control popular will and support justice.
7. What type of rights are contained in the Bill of Rights? Select the two correct answers.
a. The Bill of Rights contains natural rights.
b. The Bill of Rights contains objective rights.
c. The Bill of Rights contains procedural rights.
d. The Bill of Rights contains consensus rights.
In truth, the Bill of Rights contains both natural rights and procedural rights.
8. The Constitution's first three articles create separate legislative, executive, and judicial branches, is consistent with:
a. Jean Jacques Rousseau's belief that those without property would attempt to take it from those who do
have it
b. Montesquieu's theory for the separation of political power.
c. The framers' overall distrust in government
d. John Locke's views about the nature of liberty and how it fits into the social contract
Yes, the first three articles divide government power, consistent with Montesquieu’s theory
9. The Constitution's demotion of liberty, and lack of protections for natural rights, suggests the framers were what?
Select the one correct answer.
a. Fearful the new national government would be subject to insurrection by disgruntled Anti-federalists.
b. More interested in the practicalities of government.
c. Hostile towards the interests of individuals.
d. Worried that expressing certain rights would serve to legitimize the institution of slavery.
The Framers were interested in creating a national government that worked.
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