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1-2 page (double-spaced, 12 point, Times New Roman font) assignment that explains how you think Rousseau’s On the Social Contract relates to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen.
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How Social Contract Relates To Declaration Of The Rights Of Man And Citizen
“Man was born free, and yet he is everywhere in chains’ a phrase by the French philosopher
Jean-Jacques Rousseau who lived a life full of contradictions. He talked about upholding hygiene
yet he lived in unhealthy garrets, advocated for love for nature yet he habited the crowded
conurbations of Paris. When every philosopher spoke of the elites, Rousseau championed the
will of the common man by echoing the importance of the will of the people.
Rousseau (1762) argues that it is only when the general peoples support the laws will that
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