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WGU C963 American Politics and the US Constitution – Questions and Answers Already Passed Natural rights ✔✔Life, Liberty, and Property John Locke ✔✔17th century English philosopher who o ... pposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life, liberty, and property. State of Nature ✔✔Hypothetical condition assumed to exist in the absence of government where human beings live in "complete" freedom and general equality. Due Process ✔✔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 general sense of political equality Social Contract ✔✔A voluntary agreement among individuals to secure their rights and welfare by creating a government and abiding by its rules. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) ✔✔One of the first individuals to contribute to the idea of the social contract was a pre-Enlightenment English philosopher Leviathan (1651): Thomas Hobbes ✔✔Hobbes argues that society is not something natural and immutable, but rather it is something created by us. Labor Movement ✔✔the formation of labor unions, during the 1880's, for the workers to receive better treatment by Constitution ✔✔A document which spells out the principles by which a government runs and the fundamental laws that govern a society Bill of Rights ✔✔The first ten amendments to the Constitution Declaration of Independence ✔✔the document recording the proclamation of the second Continental Congress (4 July 1776) asserting the independence of the colonies from Great Britain Thomas Jefferson ✔✔Wrote the Declaration of Independence Shays's Rebellion (1786-1787) ✔✔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 Articles of Confederation ✔✔A weak constitution that governed America during the Revolutionary War. Federalist no. 51 ✔✔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. First Amendment ✔✔Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging th [Show More]

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