POL320Y1 Study Guide - False Consciousness, Private Good, Civil Religion
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People are in a state of nature, different than equality. There is not a lot of detail why people would enter into this contract. In the discourse of inequality is explains the development of actual historical nations/states. The rule of law is introduced after unequal relations. It is not clear what the historical status of the contract is. Some people discuss rights as being for specific peoples at specific times, but. Althoguht perhaps they have never been formally promogated, they are everywhere the same, everywhere passively accepted and in knowledge. So we are separate individuals that come together to form a people, and then we are sovereign, and we make laws to bound ourselves by. One of the things he thinks he has solved, is that gov"t and laws are not chains they are self inflicted law. As a collective we have decided for ourselves. p. 150. Roussaeu says we are forced to be free.
