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BYU A HTG 100 Final Exam Questions and Answers Latest Update
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- A HTG 100
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- Brigham Young University
BYU A HTG 100 Final Exam Questions and Answers Latest Update
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BYU A HTG 100 Final Exam Questions and
Answers Latest Update 2024-2025
Central Course Questions ANS✔✔ How can we foster a society that resolves
conflicting interests and fosters beneficial cooperation while maintaining
both order and liberty?
How should we design a government for this society? Should it be powerful
or weak? Centralized or decentralized?
When and where does a market--something very decentralized--serve our
needs? When does it not serve those needs?
How have the different types of power--centralized and decentralized--
turned out in our society?
The Human Predicament Cycle ANS✔✔ Tyranny -> Revolution -> Anarchy -
> Competing Groups ->
anarchy: chaotic expression of individual or small group will- generates fear
of disorder
tyranny: organized expression of the will of an individual or small group-
generates fear of the state or the dictator
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The Constitution of Knowledge ANS✔✔ checks and balances- no one has
unlimited control over ideas
any hypothesis can be "floated"
public knowledge is defined by a community and is decentralized
authorities cannot control knowledge
David Hume ANS✔✔ viewed man as self-regarding
John Winthrop ANS✔✔ believes human nature needs to be controlled- only
wants people to have liberty to do what is "right"
civil liberty: people are able to do what is good, just, and honest (honor
code)
Economic solution for Jamestown ANS✔✔ tobacco
Mayflower Compact ANS✔✔ A legal contract in which they agreed to have
fair laws to protect the general good
John Calvin ANS✔✔ preached a morality of hard work and constant moralism
Irony of Jamestown ANS✔✔ birthplace of American democracy
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birthplace of American slavery
What did Americans learn about designing a government? ANS✔✔ that the
power of the people was paramount
History of English Rule and Conflict ANS✔✔ 1649: Parliament beheads
James's son and successor Charles I
1653-1658: Oliver Cromwell rules the Commonwealth
1660: Charles II restored to his father's throne
1685: James II- a Catholic- succeeds his uncle (Charles II)
The Whigs began to organize opposition to first Charles II and then James II
under the Earl of Shaftesbury
John Locke ANS✔✔ in a "state of nature" everyone lived in a state of
freedom and equality
government's only purpose is to protect the rights of the people
gov. only exists by the consent of the governed
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if gov. fails to do so, it should be overthrown
Glorious Revolution ANS✔✔ the overthrow of King James II of England by
King William and Mary
they promise to rule subject to the consent of the parliament
British view: solidified English sovereignty and the power of parliament
colonist view: parliament offered the crown to the new monarchs because
the people are supreme
Wholistic view of the Glorious Revolution ANS✔✔ was about
decentralization-- giving power back to the people (to a degree)
linking legitimacy and sovereignty
colonists looked back at this as the moment at which their "rights" were
ratified
Principles of the Rule of Law ANS✔✔ generality, prospectivety, publicity, due
process, consent
Generality ANS✔✔ laws must be general and apply to broad categories of
people, not specific individuals or groups
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