Politics & Government · Political Theory
A topic within Political Theory, itself one of 14 topics in that field and part of Politics & Government.
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David Hume
Government's authority rests on long habit and settled opinion rather than on any real or even fictional contract, since almost no state in history was actually founded by the consent of the governed.
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Legitimate political authority rests on a contract in which each person submits to the general will and thereby remains as free as before.
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