Question

Imagine your local police arrest a person suspected of robbing many homes and stores. This is an example of how government?

Answer 1

Fulfills its promise in the social contract

Answer 2

The correct answer is 3) fulfills its promise in the social contract.

Imagine your local police arrest a person suspected of robbing many homes and stores. This is an example of how the government fulfills its promise in the social contract.

One of the most important theories that were developed by Thomas Hobbes, and later commented by renown philosophers and thinkers such as Jean-Jaques Rosseau and John Locke, is the theory of social contract. As a smart thinker he was, Hibbes believed that society had to lose a little of its liberty to give it to the government in order to be protected by it. The authority of the government must be respected and in exchange, it is its duty to protect its citizens.

The other options of the question were 1) abuses the power citizens give to it. 2)makes laws through representatives. 4) operates by the rule of direct democracy.