Regarding the role of government, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, an eighteenth-century French philosopher, posited that
a. American democracy would end in failure.
b. in fact a social contract exists.
c. capitalism was a failed policy.
d. France would become a world superpower.
e. democracy was antithetical to freedom.
ANS: B
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