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WGU C963 American Politics and the US Constitution - Exam Q&As (Verified Answers) 2023 RATED A+ WGU C963 American Politics and the US Constitution - Exam Q&As (Verified Answers) 2023 RATED A+ One of the first individuals to contribute to the idea of th e social contract was a pre -Enlightenment English philosopher - correct answer ✅Thomas Hobbes (1588 -1679) Life, Liberty, and Property - correct answer ✅natrual rights 17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life, liberty, and property. - correct answer ✅John Locke Hypothetical condition assumed to exist in the absence of government where human beings live in "complete" freedom and general equality. - correct answer ✅State of Nature involves the government's obligation to treat all citizens fairly. Such a requirement lessens the extent to which government power can be exercised over the individual, making the power differential between the two more fair, and ensuring a gen eral sense of political equality - correct answer ✅Due Process WGU C963 American Politics and the US Constitution - Exam Q&As (Verified Answers) 2023 RATED A+ WGU C963 American Politics and the US Constitution - Exam Q&As (Verified Answers) 2023 RATED A+ A voluntary agreement among individuals to secure their rights and welfare by creating a government and abiding by its rules. - correct answer ✅Social Contract Hobbes argues that society is n ot something natural and immutable, but rather it is something created by us. - correct answer ✅Leviathan (1651): Thomas Hobbes the formation of labor unions, during the 1880's, for the workers to receive better treatment by - correct answer ✅Labor Moveme nt A government that divides the powers of government between the national government and state or provincial governments - correct answer ✅federal system A law making body made of two houses (bi means 2). Example: Congress (our legislature) is made of two house - The House of Representatives and The Senate. - correct answer ✅bicameral legislature WGU C963 American Politics and the US Constitution - Exam Q&As (Verified Answers) 2023 RATED A+ WGU C963 American Politics and the US Constitution - Exam Q&As (Verified Answers) 2023 RATED A+ A document which spells out the principles by which a government runs and the fundamental laws that govern a society - correct answer ✅Constitution The first ten amendments to the Constitution - correct answer ✅Bill of Rights the document recording t he proclamation of the second Continental Congress (4 July 1776) asserting the independence of the colonies from Great Britain - correct answer ✅Declaration of Independence Wrote the Declaration of Independence - correct answer ✅Thomas Jefferson which almost resulted in potential mob rule, suggested there might be too much democracy at play, and that maybe individual liberty was going too far - correct answer ✅Shays's Rebellion (1786 -1787) WGU C963 American Politics and the US Constitution - Exam Q&As (Verified Answers) 2023 RATED A+ WGU C963 American Politics and the US Constitution - Exam Q&As (Verified Answers) 2023 RATED A+ A weak constitution that governed America during the Revo lutionary War. - correct answer ✅Articles of Confederation Argues that separation of powers within the national government is the best way to prevent the concentration of power in the hands of one person or a single group. - correct answer ✅Federalist no. 51 Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a r edress of grievances. - correct answer ✅First Amendment Right to keep and bear arms - correct answer ✅Second Amendment The government may not house soldiers in private homes without consent of the owner - correct answer ✅Third AmendmentThe benefits of buying summaries with Stuvia:
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