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Question 1

Which of the following is the best example of populism?

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A government allows its people to govern themselves.

Question 2

Read the passage from a speech given by the Athenian leader Pericles.Our constitution does not copy the laws of neighboring states; we are rather a pattern to be imitated than imitators ourselves. Its administration favors the many instead of the few; this is why it is called democracy. If we look to the laws, they afford equal justice to all in their private differences. . . . [C]lass considerations [are not] allowed to interfere with merit; nor again does poverty bar the way, if a man is able to serve the state, he is not hindered by the obscurity of his condition. Pericles claimed that the Athenian government, unlike other Greek city-states,

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treated all its people fairly regardless of class.

Question 3

Under what circumstances did John Locke think it would be acceptable for the people to overthrow the government?

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If the government violated the social contract, the people could overthrow the government.

Question 4

The most important way in which the Greeks influenced American democracy was by allowing

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citizens to participate in government.

Question 5

The concept of natural rights, which was later used in the Declaration of Independence, was first proposed by

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John Locke.

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