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ExtremeBDS [4]
3 years ago
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The framers drew on the ideas of the british political philosophers _______________ in perceiving the relationship between gover

nment and the governed as a social contract
History
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dimaraw [331]3 years ago
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Thomas Hobbes and John Locke

Most especially the American founding fathers looked to the ideas of John Locke.  Thomas Hobbes had pointed to the social contract as the source of a government's authority, but his argument in <em>Leviathan </em>(1651) still supported a strong monarch style of government for the sake of a country's security and stability.  Locke's arguments in his <em>Second Treatise on Civil Government </em>(1689) were more focused on the authority of majority voting in a society and republican government through legislatures.
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