Editing Social Contract Theory (section)

== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Remembering</span> ==
* '''Social Contract''' — The voluntary agreement among individuals by which organized society is brought into being and invested with the right to secure mutual protection and welfare.
* '''State of Nature''' — The hypothetical "Original Condition" of humanity before any government or laws existed.
* '''Natural Rights''' — Rights that people have just by being human (e.g., Life, Liberty, Property).
* '''Thomas Hobbes''' — The philosopher who believed life in the state of nature was "Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
* '''John Locke''' — The philosopher who argued that governments exist to protect "Life, Liberty, and Estate (Property)."
* '''Jean-Jacques Rousseau''' — The philosopher who believed that the "General Will" of the people should be the highest law.
* '''Popular Sovereignty''' — The principle that the authority of a state is created and sustained by the consent of its people.
* '''The Leviathan''' — Hobbes's name for a powerful central government that keeps everyone in line.
* '''Consent of the Governed''' — The idea that a government's legitimacy depends on the approval of its citizens.
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