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Jean Jacques Rousseau (view source)
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Rousseau's most famous work was the "The Social Contract" (1762), which supported a direct [[democracy]] based on a "public will" rather than republican forms of government such as that adopted 25 years later by the [[U.S. Constitution]]. In it, he further develops the concept of the "[[social contract]]" established by [[Thomas Hobbes]] and [[John Locke]]. Rousseau disapproved of titles like nobility, and demanded complete equality between all people.
Rousseau's most famous work was the "The Social Contract" (1762), which supported a direct [[democracy]] based on a "public will" rather than republican forms of government such as that adopted 25 years later by the [[U.S. Constitution]]. In it, he further develops the concept of the "[[social contract]]" established by [[Thomas Hobbes]] and [[John Locke]]. Rousseau disapproved of titles like nobility, and demanded complete equality between all people.
Rousseau vehemently detested Catholicism and other institutionalized forms of Christianity, believing that mankind would be better off with a civil religion that was wedded to the state<ref> [http://books.google.com/books?id=IPZa0_Qx0koC&pg=PA16&dq=%22civil+religion%22+rousseau#PPA17,M1 ''Religion as a Public Good''], Alan Mittleman, Rowman & Littlefield, 2003
ISBN 0742531252, 9780742531253, 336 pages, pp. 16-17</ref>
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