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MacKinnon, Rousseau, and the Origins of Inequality

Political Theory 101

CHAPTER

The Myth of the Law Giver

John Callahan, anyone who cites Callahan at the end of one of his book notes is like a modern possible like a just like figure to write the rules and then have them be implemented magically. Machiavelli is another theorist who heaps some praise on these orders of republics, although he's not expecting them to do anything about inequality. It does seem to be, it's interesting because on the one hand you could kind of read it like the old Caesar, Weber, and Charisma episode we did as maybe this log over is a very charismatic figure. And on the other hand, you could read it in a more ethereal way as a kind of divine source of inspiration or

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