Questions

Question 1

What does it mean to be human?

Answer 1

To have agency, to be able to make choices

Question 2

What are natural rights

Answer 2

Life, liberty, property

Question 3

Proper role of gov’t in protecting natural rights?

Answer 3

Preventing other people from infringing upon others natural rights

Question 4

Define natural, civil, and pseudo- rights

Answer 4

Natural rights - rights all humans have because of their ability to make decisions for themselves

Civil Rights - protect natural rights

Pseudo Rights - imagined rights, that infringe upon other people’s rights

Question 5

Define rule of law

Answer 5

Well defined laws restrict the government from acting arbitrarily 
Laws should be:
Generality
Prospectivity
Public

Question 6

Connect agency, natural rights, rule of law

Answer 6

Agency gives us natural rights, rule of law protects natural laws

Question 7

What legacy of Liberty did the founders of America get from the British?

Answer 7

Common law - granted rights and privileges to citizens (trial by jury) to protect innocent and prosecute guilty

Bill of Rights - outlined citizens rights, protected even from the highest level of gov’t

Magna Carta -

Question 8

Events that led up to American Revolution

Answer 8

French and Indian War - 
Proclamation of 1763 - 
Sugar tax
Stamp tax
Townsend acts