1. Liberalisim to Socialism
The Rousseau society only exists by its "collective moral body, a kind of depressed self which, in its wholeness, is the sovereign power the sovereign and subjects are simply the same people in different respects." ... In one sense, much of the notion that the establishment of a constitution would be on behalf of a united people was myth. ... Tom Pain's Common Sense (1776) delivered the first bold argument for independence in words any fairly literate person could understand: "Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil". ... Jeff...
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