USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -John Locke published a book, ‘Two Government Treatises’, in which he tried to refute the monarch’s doctrine of the supernatural and the absolute right. Rousseau took this idea even further suggested a system of government between the citizens and their members focuses on the social contract.

Detailed explanation-2: -Government (1690) by Locke and The Social Contract (1762) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78) proposed justifications of political association grounded in the newer political requirements of the age.

Detailed explanation-3: -But Rousseau also believed in the possibility of a genuine social contract, one in which people would receive in exchange for their independence a better kind of freedom, namely true political, or republican, liberty.

Detailed explanation-4: -Rousseau’s central argument in The Social Contract is that government attains its right to exist and to govern by “the consent of the governed.” Today this may not seem too extreme an idea, but it was a radical position when The Social Contract was published.