The ruler would have to use force, however, as seen in slavery, to direct his subject. The use of force is not natural. ... In a society run by force, what Rousseau terms as "slavery," there is no room for freedom. ... Just as the human will transfers a command to its members for execution, so the body politic may give its decisions force by setting up authority which, like the brain, may command its members. ... Thus Rousseau recognizes that, in the case of institutions and traditions as elsewhere, will, and not force, is the basis of the State. ...

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The ruler would have to use force, however, as seen in slavery, to direct his subject. The use of force is not natural. ... In a society run by force, what Rousseau terms as "slavery," there is no room for freedom. ... Just as the human will transfers a command to its members for execution, so the body politic may give its decisions force by setting up authority which, like the brain, may command its members. ... Thus Rousseau recognizes that, in the case of institutions and traditions as elsewhere, will, and not force, is the basis of the State. ...

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English philosopher Thomas Hobbes's novel Leviathan (1651), John Locke's The Second Treasite of Government (1690), and Genevian philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality (1755) political theories and ideologies held an immense influence on the shaping of governmental systems and so...

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