An Introduction to Government Participation in Government Johnstown High School Mr. Cox

Bellringer Essential Question Give me three reasons why you stop at a stop sign when driving. Essential Question What are the fundamental reasons why government exists? How do Locke and Hobbes differ in their interpretations of human nature?

Laws and Governance What is the relationship between the people and the government? Take a moment and think about a society without laws…why are they necessary? Are they? Reading: Why we have laws in Society..

Laws, Governance, and People Anarchy - a state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority. Do people want government? Do we like order and structure? Or have we just been conditioned to it? What would people be like without government? State of Nature Is society natural, or man made?

Part II – Where do our ideas about government come from? 18th and 19th Century Enlightenment Thinkers Hobbes Locke Rousseau Montesquieu Voltaire

Political Thought Related to Law John Locke Thomas Hobbes Human Nature Social Anti social/self interested State of Humans in Nature Exist in communities and groups with leaders, this occurs naturally Societies only exist because strong leaders force them to. Rights All people have inalienable rights, can never be taken away Believes that the rights people have are relinquished when ruled by a government Social Contract People give up their freedoms to government in exchange for safe haven/protection/justice When humans give up their natural freedom and are ruled by a sovereign, they also lose their rights

Grolier Comparison of Hobbes/Locke Locke’s considerable importance in political thought is better known. As the first systematic theorist of the philosophy of liberalism, Locke exercised enormous influence in both England and America. In his Two Treatises of Government (1690), Locke set forth the view that the state exists to preserve the natural rights of its citizens. When governments fail in that task, citizens have the right—and sometimes the duty—to withdraw their support and even to rebel. Locke opposed Thomas Hobbes’s view that the original state of nature was “nasty, brutish, and short,” and that individuals through a social contract surrendered—for the sake of self-preservation—their rights [...] http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/thomas-hobbes-john-locke-political-theories-competing-views.html#lesson

Essential Question Homework How do Locke and Hobbes differ regarding their political theories? Homework Continue to work on Current Event projects