John Locke believed that men were basically good and they were born free before government existed.
As of September 22, 2008, the US government under the US Constitution has existed for 218 years and 204 days.
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Thomas Hobbes
John Locke believed that men were basically good and they were born free before government existed.
People believed that the government existed as the result of an agreement between the people and their leaders.
People believed that the government existed as the result of an agreement between the people and their leaders.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed that men were basically good and that they were born free before government existed. He argued that society and government corrupted individuals and restricted their natural freedom and goodness.
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Hobbes believed the state of nature to be a state of war and chaos, where life is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." He saw the social contract as necessary to establish a sovereign authority to maintain order. Locke viewed the state of nature more positively, as a state of natural rights and freedom, and believed the social contract existed to protect these rights. Rousseau saw the state of nature as peaceful and harmonious, with the social contract as a means to protect individual liberties while promoting the common good.
People believed that the government existed as the result of an agreement between the people and their leaders.
People believed that the government existed as the result of an agreement between the people and their leaders.
People believed that the government existed as the result of an agreement between the people and their leaders.
People believed that the government existed as the result of an agreement between the people and their leaders.
It was a tribal society. Various tribes were ruled by their eldermen.