WGU C963 Study Guide (Version 3) ( Latest 2024 / 2025 ) Actual Questions and Answers 100% Correct
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WGU C963 Study Guide (Version 3) ( Latest 2024 / 2025 ) Actual Questions and Answers 100% Correct
1. John Locke
Answer: English philosopher who advocated the idea of a "social contract" in which
government powers are derived from the consent of the governed and in which the
governmentservest...
1. John Locke
Answer: English philosopher who advocated the idea of a "social contract" in which
government powers are derived from the consent of the governed and in which the
government serves the people; also said people have natural rights to life,liberty and property.
2. Montesquieu
Answer: French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and
legislative and judicial powers.
Advocated for due process
3. Adam Smith
Answer: argued for property rights and minimal gov regulation in economics.
4. Social Contracy Theory
Answer: Agreement between people and government where citizens are content to be
governed as long as government protects natural rights.
5. Thomas Hobbes
Answer: English philosopher who argued society isn’t natural or im-mutable but created by
us, instead of being passive members of society we arecreators.
6. Implicit contracts
Answer: never agreed upon, but we find ourselves in.
"Rights imply obligation so when you take from the pot, you are expected to pay in"Ex: taxes
7. State of Nature
Answer: theory on how people might have lived before societies
8. Natural Rights
Answer: society can not interfere with our efforts to obtainex: Food, shelter, clothing
9. Hobbes vs. Locke vs. Roussea
Answer: Hobbes- seeks physical security as socialcontract
Locke- seeks protection from harm and permitting us to pursue our own lives
Rousseau- argues for general will of society using uniformity of existence
10. Social Contract
Answer: require continual renegotiation to remain relevant to presentcircumstances.
Failure to negotiate can lead to dissolution of society
, 11. Declaration of Independence
Answer: written mainly by Jefferson, expressed ideas oflocke.
-Gov serves to regulate terms of social contract in society and protect our naturalrights and
serve as democratic conduit for interests
12. U.S. Constitution
Answer: turns to less democratic ideas of Montesquieu andRousseau
- separates legislative, executive and judicial powers, works to determine sovereign-ty of states
13. Bill of Rights
Answer: Constitutional amendments that protect the rights of citizens
14. Articles of confederation
Answer: first attempt at structuring the United States.
- established republic that held power and elected representatives to govern withindependent
self governing states from a union
15. bicameral legislature
Answer: two chambers of legislature; House of Representativesand Senate
created so the government didn’t have too much power
16. Power to Borrow and coin money
Answer: federal government can establish nationalbanking system; also to control national
fiscal power
17. Power to declare war
Answer: gov can declare war if deemed appropriate and canappoint military officials
18. Power to make Treaties and Alliances with other nations
Answer: could enter intotreaties or agreements with other nations if deemed appropriate.
19. Power to Regulate Trade w/ Native Americans
Answer: negotiate and regulate tradebut, native Americans werent considered citizens of the
U.S. and were treated as foreigners.
20. Power to settle disputes between states
Answer: right to settle any and all boundarydisputes that arose between the states, which were
bound to happen.
21. Power to Raise an Army or Navy
Answer: National government didn't have the powerfor its own military so they had to request
troops from the states who could deny. This would leave a lack of defense for the country
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