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WGU C963 Quizzes 1 - 23 Questions and Answers1. What describes characteristics of a social contract?:Answer -
Specification of nat- ural rights
-a definition of human nature
-a collective expression of a collectively shared interest
2. In what ways is the state of nature important for constructing a social
contract?: Answer - -The State of Nature gives definition to what it
means to be human
-The state of nature gives definition to natural rights
3. Why is it important to now what the quality of life is like in the state
of nature?: Answer --It explains the incentive for working
cooperatively with others
-it helps to frame the type of social contract that is needed to make
individual life better
4. What is the purpose of the social contract?: Answer --To
acknowledge and protect natural rights
5. What is an important weakness of a social contract?: Answer --
Social contracts require consensus
6. What is true about natural rights?: Answer --They let you do what you
need to survive and be secure
-They impart an equality of being among all people
,7. What is true about the state of nature?: -is a thought experiment upon
which a definition of proper society and government built
-permits a philosophical definition of human nature
8. What conditions are required for a social contract to work?: -
Consensus among whose whom the social contract applies to
-uniformity of ability and purpose among those who agree to the social
contract
9. Which of these describes the the theory of the social contact?: -Society
is not natural, but created by the people
10.What are the social contracts constructed to be compatible with?: -
Hu- man Nature and Natural rights
11.Which was designed with a concern for the tyranny of factional
majori- ty?: -The constitution
12.What is the Enlightenment?: -The source of our ideas about natural
rights
-A period of Western European history following the Middle Ages
13.Why does the Enlightenment influence American politics and govern-
ment?: -Those immigrating to the American colonies are attracted to
the Enlight- enment's ideas of liberty and property
, -The colonist have a long history of self-government, consistent with
the Enlight- enment's idea's about government by consent
-Ideas of the Enlightenment frame the colonists' response to British
violations of natural rights.
14.How do conflicting ideas of the Enlightenment influence American
gov- ernment and politics?: -The constitution sets up a system of
government that isn't favorable to the democratic expression of the
popular will
-The protection of private property can interfere with the
government's dealing with important social needs
15.What ideas are embodied in the Declaration of Independence?: -The
idea that governments are created by people to protect their natural
rights
-the natural rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness
16.In what key ways does the Constitution differ from the Declaration of
Independence?: -is more concerned with controlled rather than
expressing the popular will
-makes justice more important than liberty
17.What type of rights are contained in the Bill of Rights?: -Natural rights
-Procedural rights
18.The Constitution's first three articles create separate legislative,
execu- tive and judicial branches, is consistent with:: -Montesquieu's
theory for the separation of political power
19.The constitutions demotion of liberty, and lack of protections for
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