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victus00 [196]
3 years ago
14

Social Contract Theory holds that governments get their power from the people, and that if the government no longer serves the p

eople it can be overthrown. Which of these offers the BEST example of Social Contract Theory in practice in America?
History
1 answer:
erastovalidia [21]3 years ago
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Social contract theory, nearly as old as philosophy itself, is the view that persons' moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract<span> or agreement among them to form the society in which they live.

</span>The theory<span> of an implicit </span>social contract<span>holds that by remaining in the territory controlled by some society, which usually has a government, people give consent to join that society and be governed by its government, if any. This consent is what gives legitimacy to such government.</span>
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