WGU C963 American politics and US Constitution (100% Correct Answers).Latest Update 2023.Attained Grade A+ Social Contract -✔️✔️An agreement between people and government in which citizens consent to being governed so long as the government protects their natural rights. Natural Rights -✔️✔️the idea that all humans are born with rights, which include the right to life, liberty, and property State of Nature -✔️✔️A theory on how people might have lived before societies came into existence. is a condition in which all of us live individually and solitarily, prior to the existence of society. We are physically and mentally capable of achieving our own survival. Montesquieu (1689-1755) -✔️✔️contribution in The Spirit of the Laws (1748) regards the structure of political institutions. He argues for a separation of powers: legislative, executive, and judicial. Each will serve as a check on the power of the other, limiting the harm each might do. separates power to offset the power of different social interests: ordinary people, the aristocracy, and the monarch. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): -✔️✔️One of the first individuals to contribute to the idea of the social contract was a pre-Enlightenment English philosopher. Hobbes argues that society is not something natural and immutable,