what were the main ideas of social thinkers which were significant to the establishment of new forms of government ? how did they gain popularity ?
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John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau envisaged a society based on freedom and equal laws and opportunities for all.
In his "Two Treatises of Government " , Locke sought to refuse the doctrine of the divine and absolute right of the monarch.
Rousseau carried the idea forward, proposing a form of government based on a social contract between people and their representatives.
In the spirit of the laws, Montesquieu proposed a division of power within the
government between the legislature, the executive and the judiciary.
Many democratic principles were put forward by philosophers like Rousseau
in his book "The Social Contract".
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