Yes, Baron De Montesquieu believed that government was based on a contract between people and the ruler, which he an other Enlightenment thinkers such as John Locke referred to as the "Social Contract".
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Slavery played the central role during the American Civil War. The primary catalyst for secession was slavery, especially Southern political leaders' resistance to attempts by Northern antislavery political forces to block the expansion of slavery into the western territories.
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