How Does the Principle of Popular Sovereignty Align with John

question 63

Multiple Choice

How does the principle of popular sovereignty align with John Locke's theory of a social contract?

• A) The people, not the government, have the power to infringe upon their own rights.
• B) The people may vote out any government officials who they feel violate their rights.
• C) The government has the ability to determine if it is in the interest of the people to violate their rights.
• D) The government has the power to violate the social contract only in matters of national security.

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Definitions:

Normally Developing

A term used to describe the typical progression of physical, cognitive, and emotional growth in children.

Hidden Object Test

A research technique invented by Piaget to assess object permanence in infants from 6 months old. An interesting object, like a small toy, is placed in front of a baby within her reach. As the baby watches, the experimenter covers the object so that it is out of sight. If the baby searches for the object under the cloth she demonstrates that she has a sense of the continued existence of absent objects.

Object Permanence

The fact that objects have a separate existence from the perceiver; that is, they continue to exist even when no one perceives them.

Preoperational Thought

Refers to a stage in Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where children from 2 to 7 years old are able to engage in symbolic play but have not yet understood the concept of logical operations.