The Social Contract is a 1762 work of political philosophy by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. As a follow-up to his Discourse on Inequality, which examined the sources of inequality and suffering occurring in civilized society, here Rousseau examines the question of what government bests allow people to live in freedom and harmony. Rousseau argues that a social contract, individuals' free submission to certain rules and societal compromises, must be the basis of any political system. Examining various governments, Rousseau argues that small city-states governed by an elected aristocracy allow the most freedom.
Why if at all might civil disobedience be justified 30 marks Civil Disobedience is when a faction of a society which is governed by popular consent believes that a new system of government or a change in the normal government is required To this end the faction can will either lawfully or unlawfully commit acts of rebellion shows of resistance to the issue they object to Locke believes that civil disobedience is justifiable if the governments legitimate authority is questioned by the people sin
Accounts of the State of Nature and characterization of Human Beings Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes was written thanks to Euclid like a geometrical proof where the first chapters set the foundations upon which the book and his later ideas will be based One of the main arguments presented is that in a state of nature the characteristics of human beings would put us in a war of all against all The state of nature is when there is no government rules or regulations except those strategies that can get