THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION
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The concept that an entire society agrees to be governed by the general will & all individuals should be forced to abide by it since it represents what is best for the entire community.
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The right of children to leave their parents’ family and move to Yukon.
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The concept that the state should not impose government regulations but should leave the economy alone.
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An artisticstyle that replaced baroque in the 1730s; it was highly secular, emphasizing grace, charm, & gentle action.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In Du Contrat social (1762; The Social Contract), Rousseau argued that freedom and authority are not contradictory, since legitimate laws are founded on the general will of the citizens. In obeying the law, the individual citizen is thus only obeying himself as a member of the political community.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Analysis. 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.
Detailed explanation-4: -The general will is the source of law and is willed by each and every citizen. In obeying the law each citizen is thus subject to his or her own will, and consequently, according to Rousseau, remains free.