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The document summarizes the social contract theory of the origin of the state according to key thinkers like Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau. It outlines that social contract theory postulates that in the state of nature before civil society, individuals lived without laws or government and were driven solely by self-interest, leading to a dangerous state of conflict and insecurity. Theorists disagree on the specifics of the state of nature but agree that individuals voluntarily formed civil societies and conse

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Yogesh Negi
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