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The second manner of diminishing the influence of authority does not consist in stripping society of any of its rights, nor in paralyzing its efforts, but in distributing the exercise of its privileges in various hands, and in multiplying functionaries, to each of whom the degree of power necessary for him to perform his duty is entrusted.

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Se eu considerasse tão-somente a força e o efeito que dela deriva, diria: Enquanto um povo é constrangido a obedecer e obedece, faz bem; tão logo ele possa sacudir o jugo e o sacode, faz ainda melhor; porque, recobrando a liberdade graças ao mesmo direito com o qual lha arrebataram, ou este lhe serve de base para retomá-la ou não se prestava em abs

Plato: the state should make possible the conditions under which everyone can provide for themselves and seek the Good. Aristotle: all communities aim at some good, and the state is the highest kind of community, aiming at the highest of goods. Locke: The state is legitimate if it enforces contracts and acts as the guarantor of private property.

"The problem is to find a form of association 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." This is the fundamental problem of which the Social Contract provides the solution.

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La croyance selon laquelle les enfants ont un esprit intrinsèquement pur, uniquement corrompu par la culture et la société, est issue en grande partie de l’esprit du philosophe genevois Jean-Jacques Rousseau82

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