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Rousseau explores the political philosophy of authority originating from the consent of the people.

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the mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty. But I have already said too much on this head, and the philosophical meaning of the word liberty does not now concern us.

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