The Social Contract

The study of the rights, duties, and responsibilities of citizenship.

• Social Studies

• Civics

• American History

• Economics

A member of a country.

• Citizen

• Government

• Social Contract

• Duties

Freedoms.

• Government

• Rights

• Citizen

• Country

Things citizens must do.

• Responsibilities

• Rights

• Duties

• Government

Things citizens should do.

• Rights

• Government

• Duties

• Responsibilities

When no government exists.

• Duties

• Anarchy

• Democracy

• Rights

A government controlled by the people.

• Government

• Democracy

• Anarchy

• Duties

A city where the government is located.

• Responsibilities

• Duties

• Government center

• Capital

The idea that society is an agreement between citizens and government.

• Social Contract

• Government

• Rights

• Duties

English philosophers who wrote about why humans create governments.

• Thomas Hobbes/John Locke

• Thomas Jefferson/George Washington

• James Madison/Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke/James Madison