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MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800

THE BILL OF RIGHTS THE CONSTITUTIONS FIRST 10 AMENDMENTS

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Which Enlightenment thinker’s idea about a social contract are most clearly shown in this excerpt:"Powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.”-Bill of Rights
A
Hobbes
B
Beccaria
C
Rousseau
D
Voltaire
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) He focused on social contract theory, most notably in his book The Social Contract (1762).

Detailed explanation-2: -Social contract theory, nearly as old as philosophy itself, is the view that persons’ moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they live.

Detailed explanation-3: -Often credited as a founder of modern “liberal” thought, Locke pioneered the ideas of natural law, social contract, religious toleration, and the right to revolution that proved essential to both the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution that followed.

Detailed explanation-4: -Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), in his influential 1762 treatise The Social Contract, outlined a different version of social-contract theory, as the foundations of society based on the sovereignty of the ‘general will’.

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