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Politics A-Level: Ideologies (DONEEEEE)

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What is the Mechanistic and Social Contract Theory? Link Locke to this

Author: eric_galvao



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-Locke disagreed with Hobbes about Human Nature - it wasn't Chaotic and Violent. Locke said the State was needed to Judge Disputed -The Mechanistic Theory suggests that the State is an Artificial creation, that was made by Man to Protect Individual Freedom -Locke using that Developed the Social Contract Theory, which argues Citizens and Government would make an Imaginary Document, in which the Government would Respect and Preserve the Freedom of the People, in Return the Citizens would give some of their Freedom and follow the Rule of Law. If the Government acted unlawfully, the Citizens can Break this Document


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