The Social Contract Quiz
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According to Social Contract theorists, how do they believe the fundamentals of society were brought about?

  • Through divine rights of kings
  • Through the Biblical account of salvation history
  • Through conventions and agreements, tacit or explicit (correct)
  • Through natural rights of man

    • What did Hobbes depict the natural state of man to be like?

  • Highly organized and structured
  • Chaotic and unpredictable
  • Nasty and barbaric (correct)
  • Harmonious and peaceful

    • What did Rousseau compare the natural state of man to?

  • Dark and gloomy like a haunted forest
  • Pristine like a Garden of Eden (correct)
  • Barren like a desert
  • Chaotic like a battlefield

    • What are laws, including a Constitution, considered as, according to the text?

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