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How do Rousseau and Montesquieu
differ in their view of the role of laws in a democracy?​

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In 1649, a civil war broke out over who would rule England: Parliament or King Charles I. The war ended with the beheading of the king. Shortly after Charles was executed, an English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679), wrote The Leviathan, a defense of the absolute power of kings.

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