WGU C963 Lesson quizzes 1-23
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Which statement describes characteristics of a social contract? Select the three
correct answers.
A manifestation of the will of God
A collective expression of a collectively shared interest
A specification of natural rights
A definition of human nature
A collective expression of a collectively shared interest
A specification of natural rights
A definition of human nature
In what way is the state of nature important for constructing a social contract?
Select the two correct answers.
The state of nature offers an ideal in which a social contract should seek to
emulate.
The state of nature is fictional and offers nothing meaningful for constructing a
social contract.
The state of nature gives definition to what it means to be human.
The state of nature gives definition to natural rights.
The state of nature gives definition to what it means to be human.
The state of nature gives definition to natural rights.
Why is it important to know what the quality of life is like in the state of nature?
Select the two correct answers.
It helps to frame the type of social contract that is needed to make individual life
better.
It provides the basis for a measure of human progress.
It explains the incentive for working cooperatively with others.
It provides a utopian goal for society to try and realize.
It helps to frame the type of social contract that is needed to make individual life better.
It explains the incentive for working cooperatively with others.
What is the purpose of a social contract? Select the one correct answer.
To create natural rights
To realize the will of God
To acknowledge and protect natural rights
To acknowledge and protect natural rights
What is an important weakness of a social contract? Select the one correct
answer.
Social contracts don't aspire to create a perfect moral order.
All social contracts eventually fail
Social contracts require consensus.
Social contracts are fixed.
Social contracts require consensus.
Which statements are true about natural rights? (Choose the two correct
answers.)
,They let you do what you need to survive and be secure.
They are given by the government and not God.
They compel the creation of democratic government.
They impart an equality of being among all people.
They let you do what you need to survive and be secure.
They impart an equality of being among all people.
Which statements are true concerning the state of nature? Select the two correct
answers.
Permits a philosophical definition of human nature.
Is a thought experiment upon which a definition of proper society and
government are built
Describes the relationship between human beings and animals.
Suggests that human beings are naturally social
Permits a philosophical definition of human nature.
Is a thought experiment upon which a definition of proper society and government are
built
What conditions are required for a social contract to work? Select the two correct
answers.
Consensus among those whom the social contract applies to
A commitment to toleration
Uniformity of ability and purpose among those who agree to the social contract
The desire for a utopian society among those who want the social contract
Consensus among those whom the social contract applies to
Uniformity of ability and purpose among those who agree to the social contract
Which of these describes the theory of the social contract? Select the one correct
answer.
Society was created by God.
The people do not control society, but society controls the people.
Society is not natural, but created by the people.
We must accept society as it is since it was naturally created.
Society is not natural, but created by the people.
What are social contracts constructed to be compatible with? Select the one
correct answer.
Direct and Representative Democracies
Nature and God
Human Nature and Natural Rights
Ordinary Rights and Government Rights
Human Nature and Natural Rights
Which was designed with a concern for the tyranny of factional majority?
The Bill of Rights
The Declaration of Independence
The Social Contract
The Constitution
The Constitution
What is the Enlightenment? Select the two correct answers.
The source of our ideas about natural rights.
,A period of Western European history following the Middle Ages.
Where democratic government is invented.
A revival of Roman Catholicism.
The source of our ideas about natural rights.
A period of Western European history following the Middle Ages.
Why does the Enlightenment influence American politics and government? Select
the three correct answers.
Those immigrating to the American colonies are attracted to the Enlightenment's
ideas of liberty and property.
Ideas of the Enlightenment frame the colonists' response to British violations of
natural rights.
The colonists have a long history of self-government, consistent with the
Enlightenment's ideas about government by consent.
The colonists are attracted to the idea of the divine right of kings.
Those immigrating to the American colonies are attracted to the Enlightenment's ideas
of liberty and property.
Ideas of the Enlightenment frame the colonists' response to British violations of natural
rights.
The colonists have a long history of self-government, consistent with the
Enlightenment's ideas about government by consent.
How do conflicting ideas of the Enlightenment influence American government
and politics? Select the two correct answers.
The conflict among ideas leads to an increasingly undemocratic system of
government.
The conflict between popular government and the separation of powers creates
an ideal balance of interests.
The protection of private property can interfere with the government's dealing
with important social needs.
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.
The Constitution sets up a system of government that isn't favorable to the democratic
expression of the popular will.
Which ideas are embodied in the Declaration of Independence? Select the two
correct answers.
The idea that governments are created by people to protect their natural rights
The purpose of government is to secure justice for all people
The ideas of Thomas Hobbes
The natural rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness
The idea that governments are created by people to protect their natural rights
The natural rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness
In what key ways does the Constitution differ from the Declaration of
Independence? Select the two correct answers.
The Constitution expands the list of natural rights.
The Constitution elevates the rights of property.
, The Constitution makes justice more important than liberty.
The Constitution is more concerned with controlling rather than expressing the
popular will.
The Constitution makes justice more important than liberty.
The Constitution is more concerned with controlling rather than expressing the popular
will.
What type of rights are contained in the Bill of Rights? Select the two correct
answers.
The Bill of Rights contains procedural rights.
The Bill of Rights contains objective rights.
The Bill of Rights contains consensus rights.
The Bill of Rights contains natural rights.
The Bill of Rights contains procedural rights.
The Bill of Rights contains natural rights.
Select the one correct answer.
The Constitution's first three articles create separate legislative, executive and
judicial branches, is consistent with:
Jean Jacques Rousseau's belief that those without property would attempt to
take it from those who do have it
The framers' overall distrust in government
John Locke's views about the nature of liberty and how it fits into the social
contract
Montesquieu's theory for the separation of political power.
Montesquieu's theory for the separation of political power.
Select the one correct answer.
The Constitution's demotion of liberty, and lack of protections for natural rights,
suggests the framers were what?
More interested in the practicalities of government.
Hostile towards the interests of individuals.
Worried that expressing certain rights would serve to legitimize the institution of
slavery.
Fearful the new national government would be subject to insurrection by
disgruntled Anti-federalists.
More interested in the practicalities of government.
Which system of government allows states to retain most of their power and
authority while delegating few defined powers to the national government? Select
the one correct answer.
A monarchy
A confederation
An oligarchy
A federal system
A confederation
Why did the Articles of Confederation fail? Select the two correct answers.
The Articles limited the powers of the national government too much, making it
weak and ineffective.
The Articles gave the states too much authority.
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Which statement describes characteristics of a social contract? Select the three
correct answers.
A manifestation of the will of God
A collective expression of a collectively shared interest
A specification of natural rights
A definition of human nature
A collective expression of a collectively shared interest
A specification of natural rights
A definition of human nature
In what way is the state of nature important for constructing a social contract?
Select the two correct answers.
The state of nature offers an ideal in which a social contract should seek to
emulate.
The state of nature is fictional and offers nothing meaningful for constructing a
social contract.
The state of nature gives definition to what it means to be human.
The state of nature gives definition to natural rights.
The state of nature gives definition to what it means to be human.
The state of nature gives definition to natural rights.
Why is it important to know what the quality of life is like in the state of nature?
Select the two correct answers.
It helps to frame the type of social contract that is needed to make individual life
better.
It provides the basis for a measure of human progress.
It explains the incentive for working cooperatively with others.
It provides a utopian goal for society to try and realize.
It helps to frame the type of social contract that is needed to make individual life better.
It explains the incentive for working cooperatively with others.
What is the purpose of a social contract? Select the one correct answer.
To create natural rights
To realize the will of God
To acknowledge and protect natural rights
To acknowledge and protect natural rights
What is an important weakness of a social contract? Select the one correct
answer.
Social contracts don't aspire to create a perfect moral order.
All social contracts eventually fail
Social contracts require consensus.
Social contracts are fixed.
Social contracts require consensus.
Which statements are true about natural rights? (Choose the two correct
answers.)
,They let you do what you need to survive and be secure.
They are given by the government and not God.
They compel the creation of democratic government.
They impart an equality of being among all people.
They let you do what you need to survive and be secure.
They impart an equality of being among all people.
Which statements are true concerning the state of nature? Select the two correct
answers.
Permits a philosophical definition of human nature.
Is a thought experiment upon which a definition of proper society and
government are built
Describes the relationship between human beings and animals.
Suggests that human beings are naturally social
Permits a philosophical definition of human nature.
Is a thought experiment upon which a definition of proper society and government are
built
What conditions are required for a social contract to work? Select the two correct
answers.
Consensus among those whom the social contract applies to
A commitment to toleration
Uniformity of ability and purpose among those who agree to the social contract
The desire for a utopian society among those who want the social contract
Consensus among those whom the social contract applies to
Uniformity of ability and purpose among those who agree to the social contract
Which of these describes the theory of the social contract? Select the one correct
answer.
Society was created by God.
The people do not control society, but society controls the people.
Society is not natural, but created by the people.
We must accept society as it is since it was naturally created.
Society is not natural, but created by the people.
What are social contracts constructed to be compatible with? Select the one
correct answer.
Direct and Representative Democracies
Nature and God
Human Nature and Natural Rights
Ordinary Rights and Government Rights
Human Nature and Natural Rights
Which was designed with a concern for the tyranny of factional majority?
The Bill of Rights
The Declaration of Independence
The Social Contract
The Constitution
The Constitution
What is the Enlightenment? Select the two correct answers.
The source of our ideas about natural rights.
,A period of Western European history following the Middle Ages.
Where democratic government is invented.
A revival of Roman Catholicism.
The source of our ideas about natural rights.
A period of Western European history following the Middle Ages.
Why does the Enlightenment influence American politics and government? Select
the three correct answers.
Those immigrating to the American colonies are attracted to the Enlightenment's
ideas of liberty and property.
Ideas of the Enlightenment frame the colonists' response to British violations of
natural rights.
The colonists have a long history of self-government, consistent with the
Enlightenment's ideas about government by consent.
The colonists are attracted to the idea of the divine right of kings.
Those immigrating to the American colonies are attracted to the Enlightenment's ideas
of liberty and property.
Ideas of the Enlightenment frame the colonists' response to British violations of natural
rights.
The colonists have a long history of self-government, consistent with the
Enlightenment's ideas about government by consent.
How do conflicting ideas of the Enlightenment influence American government
and politics? Select the two correct answers.
The conflict among ideas leads to an increasingly undemocratic system of
government.
The conflict between popular government and the separation of powers creates
an ideal balance of interests.
The protection of private property can interfere with the government's dealing
with important social needs.
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.
The Constitution sets up a system of government that isn't favorable to the democratic
expression of the popular will.
Which ideas are embodied in the Declaration of Independence? Select the two
correct answers.
The idea that governments are created by people to protect their natural rights
The purpose of government is to secure justice for all people
The ideas of Thomas Hobbes
The natural rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness
The idea that governments are created by people to protect their natural rights
The natural rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness
In what key ways does the Constitution differ from the Declaration of
Independence? Select the two correct answers.
The Constitution expands the list of natural rights.
The Constitution elevates the rights of property.
, The Constitution makes justice more important than liberty.
The Constitution is more concerned with controlling rather than expressing the
popular will.
The Constitution makes justice more important than liberty.
The Constitution is more concerned with controlling rather than expressing the popular
will.
What type of rights are contained in the Bill of Rights? Select the two correct
answers.
The Bill of Rights contains procedural rights.
The Bill of Rights contains objective rights.
The Bill of Rights contains consensus rights.
The Bill of Rights contains natural rights.
The Bill of Rights contains procedural rights.
The Bill of Rights contains natural rights.
Select the one correct answer.
The Constitution's first three articles create separate legislative, executive and
judicial branches, is consistent with:
Jean Jacques Rousseau's belief that those without property would attempt to
take it from those who do have it
The framers' overall distrust in government
John Locke's views about the nature of liberty and how it fits into the social
contract
Montesquieu's theory for the separation of political power.
Montesquieu's theory for the separation of political power.
Select the one correct answer.
The Constitution's demotion of liberty, and lack of protections for natural rights,
suggests the framers were what?
More interested in the practicalities of government.
Hostile towards the interests of individuals.
Worried that expressing certain rights would serve to legitimize the institution of
slavery.
Fearful the new national government would be subject to insurrection by
disgruntled Anti-federalists.
More interested in the practicalities of government.
Which system of government allows states to retain most of their power and
authority while delegating few defined powers to the national government? Select
the one correct answer.
A monarchy
A confederation
An oligarchy
A federal system
A confederation
Why did the Articles of Confederation fail? Select the two correct answers.
The Articles limited the powers of the national government too much, making it
weak and ineffective.
The Articles gave the states too much authority.
