Political Science · Political Theory
Who said that 'the policy of government should be such which allows neither rich men nor beggars to increase'?
AKarl Marx
BErnest Barker
CRousseau ✓ Correct
DHarold J. Laski
Correct answer: (C) Rousseau — The statement is by Rousseau, so the answer is Rousseau.
Explanation
★The statement is by Rousseau, so the answer is Rousseau.
★Rousseau feared that extremes of wealth and poverty destroy a free republic.
★Great inequality lets the rich buy power and forces the poor to sell themselves.
★He argued that no citizen should be rich enough to buy another, nor poor enough to be bought.
★A rough equality of condition is needed to sustain the general will and civic freedom.
★This makes Rousseau an early defender of social and economic equality.
★He developed these ideas in The Social Contract and the Discourse on Inequality.
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