Social Contract

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"As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born."

— Burke, Edmund event 1790

menu_book Reflections on the Revolution in France

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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

menu_book Anatomy of the State

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Reflections on the Revolution in France

person Burke, Edmund event 1790

Burke's furious, prescient response to the French Revolution, arguing that society is a contract between generations, that abstract rights divorced...

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Two Treatises of Government

person Locke, John event 1689

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