The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract asks how political authority can be legitimate while citizens remain free. Rousseau develops the social pact, popular sovereignty, the general will, law, government and civil…
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract asks how political authority can be legitimate while citizens remain free. Rousseau develops the social pact, popular sovereignty, the general will, law, government and civil…
View BookJohn Locke's Second Treatise of Government develops a theory of legitimate political power grounded in natural equality, rights and consent. Beginning with the state of nature, Locke examines property, family,…
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