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Write on the Locke’s Social Contract.

  • UPSC 2022
  • 10 marks
  • Western Political Thought

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John Locke's contract, set out in the Second Treatise of Government (1689), answers Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan (1651). A milder premise and narrower terms yield a limited state. Its technical novelty is a double structure: a compact among individuals, then a trust placed in government.

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