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Government is Incomplete Conquest

... individuals born with inalienable rights, he didn't represent them as having much choice either. They had either to face constant fear of violent death, or surrender all their rights to an absolute sovereign who would ensure peace and order. John Locke put forward a more palatable view of the social contract, much closer to the liberal-democratic ideals widely shared in contemporary politics. Yet this was possible only because conquest and order had been conclusively established by the time ...