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Ed Suspicious

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12. I very much appreciate your input and will be reading at the link shortly.

Reply to rug (Reply #7)

Sun Apr 19, 2015, 07:27 PM

Apr 2015

I guess the framework of my paper will be that the US was founded on the principles of liberalism enforced by the government that sprang up from the theory of the social contract. My thought was that the state has no implicit right to run roughshod over individual liberties. I was to argue that doing so constitutes a break in the social contract. So I take your point, but I'm set for purposes of this project on the social contract.

"Illiberalism in a Liberal Society: Holding Unelected Agents of the State Accountable to the Social Contract" is my working title.

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Social contract. Political Theory Thread [View all] Ed Suspicious Apr 2015 OP

Man, if anybody here would take a stab at this or even took the time to tell me to piss off Ed Suspicious Apr 2015 #1

Sorry, not something I am knowledgeable in. Interesting though. liberal_at_heart Apr 2015 #2

Thanks for replying. Feels a little less lonely now. Ed Suspicious Apr 2015 #3

I believe it is a contract among individuals PowerToThePeople Apr 2015 #4

That makes sense. So we are the principles. We create the government and empower the governement Ed Suspicious Apr 2015 #8

I have not read the book, but I think this is addressed in 'The Social Contract' Raine1967 Apr 2015 #5

Thank you. I'll check it out. Ed Suspicious Apr 2015 #13

here is something else that might be of assistance: Raine1967 Apr 2015 #6

Contract theory is a horrbile theoretical basis for a society. rug Apr 2015 #7

I very much appreciate your input and will be reading at the link shortly. Ed Suspicious Apr 2015 #12

I believe your premise is correct. Raine1967 Apr 2015 #18

A social contract is agreement among individuals in a society on point Apr 2015 #9

As I remember it from ~40 years ago, society needed a division of roles... HereSince1628 Apr 2015 #10

Thank you. You just made me think of Rawls' veil of ignorance for determining whether police action Ed Suspicious Apr 2015 #15

Depends... who you read nadinbrzezinski Apr 2015 #11

I'm thinking Rousseau wrote similar things to what the OP is thinking... HereSince1628 Apr 2015 #14

Yeah, but he should look at Rawls nadinbrzezinski Apr 2015 #16

I was just thinking about Rawls. I'm not well read in his work but I am aware of his "original Ed Suspicious Apr 2015 #17

You welcome, I discovered rawls during Occupy nadinbrzezinski Apr 2015 #19