Political Science · Political Theory
According to whom was the extension of legal equality to all citizens the primary characteristic of civil society?
AJ. S. Mill
BHarold J. Laski
CRousseau ✓ Correct
DJohn Locke
Correct answer: (C) Rousseau — Rousseau treated the extension of legal equality to all citizens as the mark of civil society, so the answer is Rousseau.
Explanation
★Rousseau treated the extension of legal equality to all citizens as the mark of civil society, so the answer is Rousseau.
★In the move from the state of nature to civil society, the social contract makes citizens equal.
★Each gives up natural liberty and gains civil liberty under a common law.
★All citizens stand equal as members of the sovereign general will.
★Legal and civic equality is therefore built into the very idea of the republic.
★John Locke focused on the protection of natural rights to life, liberty and property.
★Rousseau went further in tying legitimate society to the equality of all citizens.
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