History 2403E Study Guide - Final Guide: Age Of Enlightenment, Reform War, Philosophes
27 Feb 2018
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As well voltaire"s writing challenged the: roseau"s idea of community organization was that the people were the will can be seen as a democratic system but also as authoritarian. He stated (cid:498) body. (cid:499) this goes against his other ideas of personal rights and freedoms. ultimate judges of public interest. He believed that humans needed a civil society, and that the general will that represented the communities larger interest should be decided by a community as a whole. He disproved of any political system that separated the people from the government, paving the early grounds for democracy. One way would be by having an absolute leader, who is elected by the people. The laws the absolute ruler would enforce would be laws approved by the people.
