POLI 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Direct Democracy, John Locke, Henry David Thoreau
10 Oct 2018
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Rousseau and locke don"t think social contract theory is legitimate everywhere, but. Locke for a state to be legitimate it must be based on respect for rights, and separation of power this is fundamental for locke. Rousseau organization of the state is fundamental. If you have an elected body to make laws that any non-elected official who makes laws is illegitimate. The moral and political community is based on the common or general will. Your real will is in upholding your promise all contract theorists. Based on what unites us not what divides us. For direct democracy to work, the state must be very small and it must be homogeneous. Where there is a lot of division it is very difficult to see the common good. Heterogeneous based on religion, race, class, etc. Rousseau saw something that hobbes and locke did not really touch on.
