Cset Social Science Subtest 3: Civics
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Evolutionary Theory - ANSWER✔✔The state evolved from family. The head of
the family is the government.
Force Theory - ANSWER✔✔Government was created when all the people of the
area were bought under the authority of one (by force).
Divine Right Theory - ANSWER✔✔The state was created by god. The divine has
chosen people to rule.
Social Contract Theory: Thomas Hobbs - ANSWER✔✔In a natural state, no
government exists. People surrender the power to the state to maintain order.
People do not have the right to break the agreement.
Social Contract Theory: John Locke - ANSWER✔✔People are naturally endowed
with the right to life, liberty and property. They willingly contract power to
government to protect these rights. People have the right to break this agreement.
John Locke - ANSWER✔✔Two treaties of Government: people need government
to maintain social order and cannot live in groups without conflict.
Abraham Lincoln - ANSWER✔✔Government should do for the community
whatever they need to promote general welfare - individuals could or would not do
on their own.
,Governments purpose - ANSWER✔✔Maintain social order, provide public
services, provide national security, and control the economic system.
Economic systems do the following... - ANSWER✔✔1. What and how much
should be produced, 2. How goods and services should be produced. 3. Who gets
the goods and services that are produced.
Capitalism - ANSWER✔✔Freedom of choice and individual incentive.
1. Private ownership and control of property and economic resources.
2. Free enterprise
3. Competition among businesses
4. Freedom of choice
5. The possibility of profits
Adam Smith (1776) - ANSWER✔✔Buyers and sellers were free to make
unlimited economic decisions in the marketplace. Free enterprise: decisions made
by buyers and sellers
Mixed Market Economies - ANSWER✔✔Free enterprise but supported by
government decisions in the marketplace - the structure that the U.S. has today.
Socialism - ANSWER✔✔Government owns the basic means of production,
decides how to use resources, distributes products and wages, provides social
services.
1. Distribution of wealth and economic opportunity equally among people
2. Society's control, through its government, of all major decisions about
production
, 3. Public ownership of most land and factories
Democratic Socialism - ANSWER✔✔Works within the democratic system to
improve economic conditions.
Communism - ANSWER✔✔No social classes, all property is held in common, and
government is not necessary.
Karl Marx (1818 - 1883) - ANSWER✔✔Advocated violent revolution.
Bourgeoisie (production) and workers (proletariat) would eventually collapse
because smaller groups of capitalists would control all means of production.
Command Economy - ANSWER✔✔Decisions of the economy are made by upper
levels of government and handed down to managers.
Liberal - ANSWER✔✔Government should promote health, education and justice.
Curtail economic freedom to increase equality. Socially - no restrictions to most
individual freedoms.
Conservative - ANSWER✔✔Limiting the role of government except in supporting
traditional moral values. Private individuals should solve social problems. Free
market with limits on government intervention.
Moderates - ANSWER✔✔Fall between liberals and conservatives.
Libertarians - ANSWER✔✔Support both economic and social freedoms.
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