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Agreement among individuals forming society

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"The State has never been created by a social contract; it has always been born in conquest and exploitation."

— Rothbard, Murray event 1974

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Two Treatises of Government

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Foundational work of liberal political philosophy establishing natural rights, the social contract, and the right to revolution against tyrannical ...

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Locke, John

event 1632 - 1704

English philosopher and physician, key figure of the Enlightenment, foundational thinker on natural rights and government by consent

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