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"I. Natural Rights of the Colonists as Men. All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and enter into another.

When men enter into society, it is by voluntary consent; and they have a right to demand and insist upon the performance of such conditions and previous limitations as form an equitable original compact.

Every natural right not expressly given up, or, from the nature of a social compact, necessarily ceded, remains."—The Rights of the Colonists, Samuel Adams, 1772

"So that the social pact will not become meaningless words, it tacitly includes this commitment, which alone gives power to the others: Whoever refuses to obey the general will shall be forced to obey it by the whole body politic, which means nothing else but that he will be forced to be free. This condition is indeed the one which by dedicating each citizen to the fatherland gives him a guarantee against being personally dependent on other individuals. It is the condition which all political machinery depends on and which alone makes political undertakings legitimate. Without it, political actions become absurd, tyrannical, and subject to the most outrageous abuses."—Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1763

Which U.S. document balances ideas championed by Enlightenment philosophers with the idea of Social Commitment outlined by Rousseau? (1 point)

The Articles of Confederation
The Federalist No. 10
The Constitution
The Northwest Ordinance

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The Constitution

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