Government is Incomplete Conquest

... surrender all their rights to an absolute sovereign who would ensure peace and order. John Locke put forward a more palatable view of the social contract, much closer to... ... leading to the Boston Tea Party and the Declaration of Independence. Stories of how political order developed beyond the kind of order found in tribal societies usually... ... aristocracy and from the rising elites of trade and commerce started out adamantly opposed to democracy. They feared and resisted extension of the franchise, and democratization...