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Rousseau's Purpose Of The Government

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Rousseau contends that the purpose of the government is to unite people under general will and ensure they live in harmony. He thinks that laws should be a collective expression of a general will. All laws should be based according to the general will and should be applied to the people as a whole and not just to one particular individual. He then proposes that it will not be easy for all to sit and create laws, and thus comes up with an idea of a “lawgiver.” According to Rousseau, a lawgiver is someone who creates laws for everyone in the society based on the general will of the people. He states, a lawgiver is a wise and selfless man. Someone outside from the society, who has great ingenuity and thinks for the general society “the legislator
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