Jean Jacque Rousseau

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One of the primary principles of Rousseau's
political philosophy is that politics and
morality should not be separated. When a state
fails to act in a moral fashion, it ceases to
function in the proper manner and ceases to exert
genuine authority over the individual. The second
important principle is freedom, which the state
is created to preserve.
Jean Jacque Rousseau (17121778)
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View on governments Government an
intermediate body set up between the subjects and
the sovereign, to secure their mutual
correspondence, charged with the execution of the
laws and the maintenance of liberty, both civil
and political. A good government the
government under which, without external aids,
without naturalization or colonies, the citizens
increase and multiply most, is beyond question
the best.