MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
NORTHWEST ORDINANCE
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you can be put into jail for any reason
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people give up individual freedoms for safety and happiness
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our Constitution is a social contract
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -First, they must agree to establish society by collectively and reciprocally renouncing the rights they had against one another in the State of Nature. Second, they must imbue some one person or assembly of persons with the authority and power to enforce the initial contract.
Detailed explanation-2: -Problems with the social contract theory include the following: It gives government too much power to make laws under the guise of protecting the public. Specifically, governments may use the cloak of the social contract to invoke the fear of a state of nature to warrant laws that are intrusive.
Detailed explanation-3: -To explicate the idea of the social contract we analyze contractual approaches into five elements: (1) the role of the social contract (2) the parties (3) agreement (4) the object of agreement (5) what the agreement is supposed to show. 5. What Does the Contract Show?