Using the following passage from Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 1763 book The Social Contract to answer the following question: What th
en is government? It is an intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign to keep them in touch with each other. It is charged with executing the laws and maintaining both civil and political liberty.... The only will dominating government ... should be the general will or the law. The government's power is only the public power vested in it. --Public Domain Which quotation from the Declaration of Independence shows the influence of the idea of the social contract on the founders of the United States?
Every citizen is equal in the eyes of the government
Explanation
All citizens subject themselves to the law of the land which governs all actions of citizens of the United States of America. Persons are born with some inalienable rights such right to life, personal freedom and to own property. Rational persons subject themselves to organised society where people who break the law are punished by those entrusted with governance. The laws of the land are supported by the generality of the public.
