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Ep. 107: Uplifting Nonsense

Young Heretics

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The Social Contract Theory - You Never Consented to the American Constitution

Paine writes that man has no property in man, neither has any generation a property in the generations which are to follow. He's responding here to burke's objection to the idea that the french have the right to frame a government for themselves. Burke objected to this notion because he didn't think you could just up and restart a new government when you decided to do it. The problem is that this is actually not really how social contracts work.

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