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Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Social contract - people are willing to give up some freedoms for the majority.

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Baron de mantesquieu

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Limit government powers - divide powers between a number of authorities - a system of checks and balances

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Magna Carta

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Limited the Kings power, signed in 1215

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Ancient Greece

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First to have a democracy

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Ancient Rome

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Created first republic

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John Locke

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Contract theory - government is in agreement between ruler and the ruled

Believed in inalienable rights and life, liberty, and property

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