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These are all multiple choice, please answer all of them. Thanks so much. 1. Most social contract theory begins with what kind of theory? A) Positing an idea of humans in the state of nature, with no government. B) Beginning with positing the natural rights from the natural law. C) A belief in the rationality of humans as opposed to the irrationality of animals. D) Political documents defining a society's values. 2. Who formulated a social contract that did not involve any submission of people to the state or to other people? A) Pierre-Joseph Proudhon B) Thomas Hobbes C) John Locke D) John Rawls 3. What is the key difference between Philip Pettit's version of social contract in Republicanism and those found in classic theorists such as Hobbes and Locke? A) Pettit states that we should abandon the idea of social contract being based on consent of the governed and instead assume consent unless people rebel. B) Pettit had a much more positivist view on the state of humans governed in a state of nature. C) Pettit included a different theory of distributive justice in his social contract. D) Pettit did not believe in people giving their sovereignty to a government. 4. Which of the social contract theorists had the most positive vision of human beings in a state of nature, not assuming that life in the natural state was brutal and dangerous, but focusing on the innocence and virtue of children to show that humans are inherently good on the whole? A) Rousseau B) Locke C) Hobbes D) Rawls 5. Why would belief in a social contract such as Hobbes' Leviathan lead someone to tolerate a government taking away. more of their freedom without revolt than someone who understood the social contract more like Rousseau? A) If you believe that humans without government would be in a terribly savage state, then almost any government is better than disorder. B) Hobbes did not base his theory on children, so adults are more willing to surrender part of their freedom than children. C) Hobbes advocated being civil, while Rousseau believed in the virtue of revolution. D) Hobbes did not believe in rights, while Rousseau did. 6. Locke disagreed with Hobbes in what critical way? A) He believed that a state of nature is not necessarily a state of war. B) He said that the state of nature was inherently peaceful. C) He did not agree that people gained anything by submitting to external government. D) He did not agree that people created states of war with one another outside of civilization. 7. Hume dismissed "consent of the governed" as the basis for government because: A) He said that it was ideal, but few governments were formed that way in reality. B) He disagreed that consent of the governed gave legitimacy to a government. C) He failed to find a treaty that persuaded him to accept the idea. D) It violates contract theory. 8. Why has basing the legitimacy of a government on the notion of consent (as in "consent of the governed") historically been a challenge for social contract theory? A) The state is never in perfect alignment with the will of any individual within the state. B) There is no way for people to consent to a government. C) The governed should not be burdened with the need to consent before having a government put over them. D) It violates contract rights. 9. Implicit Social Contract" theorists claim that by not leaving a nation, a person is implicitly signing up for the social contract of that nation. How does Ronald Dworkin take issue with this claim? A) He says that they would only leave one nation for another, but do not have the option to leave all nations for individual self-governance. B) He claims that other places might be too far to reach. C) He believes there is too much inertia bias; the tendency not to think of external possibilities. D) He generally thinks that implicit social contract makes sense except for prisoners. 10. Locke believed that the exercise of power beyond right was the definition of Presumption D) War A) Tyranny B) Justice C)

These are all multiple choice, please answer all of them. Thanks so much.
1. Most social contract theory begins with what kind of theory? A) Positing an idea of humans in the state of nature,
with no government. B) Beginning with positing the natural rights from the natural law. C) A belief in the rationality of
humans as opposed to the irrationality of animals. D) Political documents defining a society's values.
2. Who formulated a social contract that did not involve any submission of people to the state or to other people? A)
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon B) Thomas Hobbes C) John Locke D) John Rawls
3. What is the key difference between Philip Pettit's version of social contract in Republicanism and those found in classic
theorists such as Hobbes and Locke? A) Pettit states that we should abandon the idea of social contract being based on
consent of the governed and instead assume consent unless people rebel. B) Pettit had a much more positivist view on
the state of humans governed in a state of nature. C) Pettit included a different theory of distributive justice in his social
contract. D) Pettit did not believe in people giving their sovereignty to a government.
4. Which of the social contract theorists had the most positive vision of human beings in a state of nature, not assuming
that life in the natural state was brutal and dangerous, but focusing on the innocence and virtue of children to show that
humans are inherently good on the whole? A) Rousseau B) Locke C) Hobbes D) Rawls
5. Why would belief in a social contract such as Hobbes' Leviathan lead someone to tolerate a government taking away.
more of their freedom without revolt than someone who understood the social contract more like Rousseau? A) If you
believe that humans without government would be in a terribly savage state, then almost any government is better than
disorder. B) Hobbes did not base his theory on children, so adults are more willing to surrender part of their freedom
than children. C) Hobbes advocated being civil, while Rousseau believed in the virtue of revolution. D) Hobbes did not
believe in rights, while Rousseau did.
6. Locke disagreed with Hobbes in what critical way? A) He believed that a state of nature is not necessarily a state of
war. B) He said that the state of nature was inherently peaceful. C) He did not agree that people gained anything by
submitting to external government. D) He did not agree that people created states of war with one another outside of
civilization.
7. Hume dismissed "consent of the governed" as the basis for government because: A) He said that it was ideal, but few
governments were formed that way in reality. B) He disagreed that consent of the governed gave legitimacy to a
government. C) He failed to find a treaty that persuaded him to accept the idea. D) It violates contract theory.
8. Why has basing the legitimacy of a government on the notion of consent (as in "consent of the governed") historically
been a challenge for social contract theory? A) The state is never in perfect alignment with the will of any individual
within the state. B) There is no way for people to consent to a government. C) The governed should not be burdened
with the need to consent before having a government put over them. D) It violates contract rights.
9. Implicit Social Contract" theorists claim that by not leaving a nation, a person is implicitly signing up for the social
contract of that nation. How does Ronald Dworkin take issue with this claim? A) He says that they would only leave one
nation for another, but do not have the option to leave all nations for individual self-governance. B) He claims that other
places might be too far to reach. C) He believes there is too much inertia bias; the tendency not to think of external
possibilities. D) He generally thinks that implicit social contract makes sense except for prisoners.
10. Locke believed that the exercise of power beyond right was the definition of
Presumption D) War
A) Tyranny B) Justice C)

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