PS 499

Social Contract-A voluntary agreement among individuals to create a government and to give that gov't adequate power to perform it's duties.
John Locke argued that people are born with natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
Authority can be defined as the ability to exercise power legitimately.
The founding fathers did not want a direct democracy because they feared Mob rule.
A representative democracy is a system of gov't in which the will of the majority is expressed through smaller groups of individuals elected by the people.
Elitist theory is a perspective holding that our…