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Brought to you by political thinkers Individuals with a cunning

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state of mind You know he looked at her Which

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of the following is the correct chronological order of political

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thinkers and hear the potential answers Who came first Han

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block So madison All right well order up Political thinkers

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ofyour is the correct chronological order of political thinkers Hobbes

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were so lock and madison all right Thomas hobbes was

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an english philosopher who developed the idea of the social

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contract in his book leviathan what's A social contract Well

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sadly it's Not a document you signed In order to

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secure a spot on some exclusive You've got to know

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someone party list A social contract According to mr hobbs

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is an implicit agreement between the people and a sovereign

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authority like a king or oprah In order to avoid

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the crazy chaos of anarchy we the people seed certain

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rights to those in power in exchange for the rule

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of law which is just basic protection from monsters and

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zombies and stuff Hobbs was the chronological leader of our

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pack So b is still in the running But we

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can go ahead and eliminate c d and e since

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they put hobbs further down the philosophical ladder We also

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know that james madison are fourth and most height challenged

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president short goes at the end of the list since

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this father of the constitution was influenced by the political

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stature of everyone that came before him Yeah that leaves

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us with john locke and jean jacques rousseau Russo was

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an eighteenth century frenchman who was way more optimistic than

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tommy hobbs Russo believed that people were born basically good

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and that the government not the people was the source

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of inequality and conflict Sound revolutionary Can you hear the

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people sing Yeah like that Well it wass in fact

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during the french revolution rousseau's ideas influenced the over full

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of long existing political systems in favor of an all

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men created equal democracy But and this is a big

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but here cannot lie John locke was born about 80

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years before our man russo so b is a bus

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that leaves us with a hobbes locke rousseau and madison

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bingo John locke claimed that humans are born with a

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set of natural rights that no government can take away

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Including life liberty and the pursuit of ice cream Oh

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and happiness kind of same thing in our philosophical menu

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Lock is sandwiched between hobbes and russo So are correct

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Answer is option a Even though hobbs left a lasting

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political legacy he actually believed life to be nasty brutish

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and short What could have left him so emotionally hobbled 00:02:49.04 --> [endTime] you wonder

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