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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 th... at 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, but rather it is something created by us. We do this to resolve problems we collectively face, to make our l [Show More]

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