Midterm 1

Question 1

Legitimate Government

Answer 1

keywords 
Rousseau's goals: 
1. inquire civil order 
2. create coexistence between political systems and liberty 
3. how to deal with individual freedom

Question 2

Rousseau

Answer 2

1. general interest –> general will (inalienable &indivisible)
2. people are the rulers
3. can never be wrong
4. prince & government

Question 3

collapse of the government (Rousseau)

Answer 3

passing power from many to few + stop governing the country based on law (usurps)

Question 4

Burke

Answer 4

1. rule of succession + not a product of natural rights (convention) + “restraint”

Question 5

Rousseau

Answer 5

1. equitable + fail-safe + legitimate
2. exchanging natural liberty -> social liberty
3. natural rights are retained
4. social compact is important & powerful

Question 6

Burke

Answer 6

1. successive contract
2. abdicates rights to be his own governor
3. revolution = restoration
4. no general will; inherited wisdom

Question 7

Paine

Answer 7

1. civil right grows out of natural rights & exchange
2. civil rights can’t invade NA
3. Contract between individual themselves –> government

Question 8

Mill

Answer 8

1. no social contract; no need
2. protection –> owes obligation –> behave
3. punishment if harm is created

Question 9

Rousseau

Answer 9

1. general in essence; sacrifice certain rights –> compensation + increase preservation of what he has
2. can’t be GIVEN-AWAY; always right
3. private will + common will < corporate will

Question 10

Rousseau

Answer 10

1. republic/body politics
2. double capacity (member of the sovereign is bounded to the individuals and member of the state bound to the sovereign)
3. state VS. sovereign VS. Power (configurations)

Question 11

Rousseau

Answer 11

1. republic/body politics
2. double capacity (member of the sovereign is bounded to the individuals and member of the state bound to the sovereign)
3. state VS. sovereign VS. Power (configurations)

Question 12

Rousseau sovereignty

Answer 12

1. inalienable + indivisible + exercise of general will + collective being (power may be transmitted but general will never)

Question 13

Paine

Answer 13

1. nation comes before rulers

legislative > executive

Question 14

Rousseau

Answer 14

1. individual put his own power under the direction of the general will –> indivisible part of the general will
2. alienate (give/sell)natural liberty to gain civil liberty
3. general will is applied to all

Question 15

Burke

Answer 15

1. natural liberty (right to enjoy life, happiness & property) VS. social liberty (restraint of personal conduct)
2. government =restraint

Question 16

Paine

Answer 16

1. some unsacrificed natural rights (intellectual property, freedom, sentiments) are retained and social liberty can’t invade it

Question 17

Mills

Answer 17

liberty = social liberty = the nature and limits of power which can be legitimately exercised by the government
2. self-expression

Question 18

Rousseau

Answer 18

1. social compact rules over all but can’t impose anything unnecessary