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Life: b. 1967
The theory of social contracts extends as far back as Plato. However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who brought the concept of a social contract between citizens and governments sharply into political thinking, paving the way for popular democracy and constitutional republicanism.
source: "What #OccupyWallStreet Must Ask of Corporations and Themselves" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2011.
topic: Thinking, Government, Political, Jacques Rousseau, Paving The Way, Political Thinking, Republicanism, Paving, Jean Jacques Rousseau