Lesson 2

Question 1

Classical republicanism

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Pleases needs of people as a community above individual liberty and self- determination

Question 2

Common good

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Doing what is best for society as a whole

Question 3

Consent of the governed

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Governmental authority dependent on the agreement of the governed

Question 4

Divine right

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Idea that monarchs derive their authority from God

Question 5

Inalienable rights

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Rights that cannot be taken away

Life livery and property

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Natural rights

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Rights that people are entitled to in a state of nature

Question 7

Political legitimacy

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Popular acceptance of a government

Question 8

Popular sovereignty

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Principe that government is created and derived its authority from the agreement of the people

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Pursuit of happiness

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Right to pursue a lifestyle that makes one. Happy

Question 10

Right of revolution

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Right of cutIens to overthrow a government that is not acting for the people’s interest

Question 11

Social contract theory

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Theory that government and governed must have a contract in which people exchange rights for benefits from government

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State of nature

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Any situation in which there is no recognized authority to make and enforce rules and manage conflicts

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Civic virtue

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Sacrificing individual interest for the benefit of the community; includes supervising and nurturing next generation of citizens

Question 14

Roman republic was the ancient society that had

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The greatest influence on the founders

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Roman republic established a complex system of

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Offices in which common people had a voice

Question 16

Roman republic was a mixed constitution because it had

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Elements of a monarchy, aristocracy, and rule of the common people

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Roman republic has done the best job of promoting

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The common good

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Public life required dedicated

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Citizens and leaders willing to make personal sacrifices for the sake of the common good

Question 19

Three aspects of classical republicanism influenced founders

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Small uniform communities
Citizenship and civic virtue
Moral education

Question 20

Small uniform communities

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Good government is possible only in small communities because people are able to know and care for one another

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Citizenship and civic virtue

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Promoted common good. Citizens should be well informed and engaged in community affairs. Courage to do right in any case. Duties

Question 22

Moral education

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Includes instruction in civic religion

Required that children develop proper habits

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Communities and churches assumed responsibility form

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Installing proper habits and practices in colonial America

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If individualism and self interest were allowed to flourish then

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Community life would suffer

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Be life came that self government is required to lay foundations for

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Social peace and a just society

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Natural rights philosophy held to

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Answer questions regarding government

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English philosophers thought that political philosophy needed a fresh start that focused on the

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Rights of individuals

Question 28

They originated the way of thinking about

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Human nature and politics that is know as natural rights philosophy

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Natural rights philosophy argued that humans are not

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Naturally social and traced government to an imaginary state of nature

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Hobbes state of nature

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Constant state of war

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Locke state of nature makes all people

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Free equal and rational

Inalienable rights

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Locke also argued that in a state of nature all people have the right to punish those who do not

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Respect others rights and don’t follow reason

People would not survive because they would seek personal advantage

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Locke argued tha if government fails to protect individual rights then the people are

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Entitled to replace it, if necessary by revolution

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Natural rights philosophy that influenced founders

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Individual rights
Popular sovereignty
Limited government human equality