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• People entered into a contract with a leader that gave the leader absolute
power.
• Once people had agreed to follow this leader they had no right to rebel no
matter how bad his rule was.
• He believed that people had natural rights. These included: right to life,
liberty and property.
• Government, he believed should protect these rights but should not have
absolute power.
• If a ruler was a tyrant than the people had a right to rebel and replace the
leader.
• Rousseau - Human nature basically good. All people equal and nobility
should be abolished. “Man is born free and everywhere is in chains. In his
book, “The Social Contract”, he presented the idea that people in a society
make a contract with each other. They give up some of there freedom for
the general will of the majority.