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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau would be most likely to support the rights of citizens to
A
return to feudalism.
B
have divine right monarchy.
C
be ruled by the Catholic Church.
D
decide the best form of government.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Expert-Verified Answer. John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau would be most likely to support a society in which the people chose the ruler. John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau were modern social theorists. According to them, freedom was the most essential component in a political community.

Detailed explanation-2: -Rousseau believed that a government’s purpose is to protect liberty, or freedom, and to help people get along. Rousseau believed that the best form of government was a democracy. His writings influenced how people think about government and how a democracy should work.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rousseau argued that the general will of the people could not be decided by elected representatives. He believed in a direct democracy in which everyone voted to express the general will and to make the laws of the land. Rousseau had in mind a democracy on a small scale, a city-state like his native Geneva.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hobbes theory of Social Contract supports absolute sovereign without giving any value to individuals, while Locke and Rousseau supports individual than the state or the government. 4. To Hobbes, the sovereign and the government are identical but Rousseau makes a distinction between the two.

Detailed explanation-5: -Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau all believe that before men were governed we all lived in a state of nature. This state of nature was the conditions in which we lived before there were any political governments to rule over us and it described what societies would be like if we had no government at all.

Detailed explanation-6: -Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Swiss Enlightenment philosopher with some radical ideas. He argued passionately for democracy, equality, liberty, and supporting the common good by any means necessary.

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