Government is Incomplete Conquest

... 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 ... ... United States, there was an organization on campus called Young Americans for Freedom. They liked to say that "This is a Republic, not a democracy. Let's keep it that way." This was also a slogan of the John Birch Society (Knight , 2013: ...