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According to a number of Rights ethicists, to understand the origin of government we must imagine people in the______ joining together to make a_______?

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Answer: state of nature / social contract

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Theorists like Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, developed different theories about the state of nature and the social contract, although their underlying ideas shared some similarities.

The state of nature refers to a real or hypothetical condition of humanity before any political association, and the social contract would be also either a real or hypothetical understanding about the rights and duties of the rulers and the ruled people.

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