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Two Treatises of Government

John Locke · Awnsham Churchill · 1689

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John Locke

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EstablishedSocial contract theories ground political authority in agreement or hypothetical consent; Hobbes (1651), Locke (1689), Rousseau (1762) and Rawls (1971) are canonical versions that differ on what is agreed, by whom, and why.