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T or F: In the state of nature according to Locke, each person has legislative power, judicial power, and executive power of the law
T or F: According to Hobbes, in the state of nature, we would have no reason to work hard, to build things, to learn things, to achieve things because we have no security for anything we possess. Even our lives are in constant danger.
T or F: According to Hobbes, in the state of nature, human power is essentially equal.
T or F: According to Hobbes, the state of nature is such a terrible place that we have no right to revolt against an unjust government.
T or F: According to Hobbes, human nature is self-interested.
"Under a government which imprisons anyone unjustly, the true place for a just person is also in prison."
Who argued that the law of unintended consequences dictates that leaders exercise foresight and proceed cautiously when engaged in political reforms?
Who wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France?
"A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statement."
"but if it is of such nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine."
"The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I this is right."
"The can only force me who obey a higher law than "
Who wrote The Conservative Mind and The Roots of American Order?
"There exists no single best form of government for the happiness of mankind... The most suitable form of government necessarily depends upon the historic experience, the customs, the beliefs, the state of climate, the ancient laws, and the material circumstances of a people."
Began his classic work with these words: "Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains" and says that man must be "forced to be free."
"to renounce liberty is to renounce being a man" and " nothing is more gentle than man in his primitive state, as he is placed by nature at an equal distance from the stupidity of brutes, and the fatal ingenuity of civilized man"
Wrote On Liberty and The subjection of women and his autobiography"
"We owe an implicit reverence to all the institutions of our ancestors."
"A ____ is a person who is a guardian of the permanent things."
_____ argued that ____ problems are, "at bottom" religious and moral problems.