Question

Match the following term with the correct description.

1. popular sovereignty
2. grievances
3. self-determination
4. social contract
5. consent
6. representation
7. petition
8. revolution
9. unalienable rights
10. tyranny
a. a real or imagined wrong or other cause for complaint or protest, esp. unfair treatment.

b. a formal written request made to an official person or organized body

c. the action of speaking or acting on behalf of someone or the state of being so represented.

d. cruel and oppressive government or rule.

e. a right according to natural law, a right that cannot be taken away, denied, or transferred

f. a doctrine in political theory that government is created by and subject to the will of the people

g. an actual or hypothetical agreement among the members of an organized society or between a community and its ruler that defines and limits the rights and duties of each (ideas among Enlightenment thinkers, including Rousseau and Locke)

h. a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system.

i. permission for something to happen or agreement to do something.

j. free choice of one's own acts or states without external compulsion

Answer 1

1. a doctrine in political theory that government is created by and subject to the will of the people

2. a real or imagined wrong or other cause for complaint or protest, esp. unfair treatment

3. free choice of one's own acts or states without external compulsion

4. an actual or hypothetical agreement among the members of an organized society or between a community and its ruler that defines and limits the rights and duties of each

5. permission for something to happen or agreement to do something

6. the action of speaking or acting on behalf of someone or the state of being so represented

7. a formal written request made to an official person or organized body

8. a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system

9. a right according to natural law, a right that cannot be taken away, denied, or transferred

10. cruel and oppressive government or rule