Liberalisim to Socialism

But Rousseau's mature thought also recognized the potential benefits and advantages of society's chains as long as they were in place as protection for the general good as the people declared it. Freedom was of uttermost importance to him, not in the sense of no limitation, but rather that those whom are to be served in the name of the common good instigate these boundaries. Once realized, this brand of political association would be one which "will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before". 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." Here the concepts of democracy were aspired to, as each individual would be given an equal right to participate in legislation, and the government thereby a true embodiment of its people. Rousseau also spoke of the sacrifice of one's self to the whole, and acknowledged that the deliberations of the people, driven by self-interest, might not always be responsible. Certain aspects of seventeenth century philosophy left room for human err, such as the easily influenced mind and its ability to misrepresent information, beside the already prevalent social tension amongst classes of the time that would have a eruptive impact society's subconscious. .
             The philosophical values that carried notions of natural human rights and power were unexplained by the counterrevolutionary outcomes. The American Revolution today can be summarized as the uprising of American patriots against the British rule's unfair taxation to the colonies. The middle-class merchants and farmers resisted paying their taxes, while the poor rioted against these landlords and the insufferable high costs of living that they were subject to.