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Enlightenment Social Contract Theory
Which of the following Enlightenment thinkers argued that a ruler's power is absolute but derives from an unwritten contract with the governed?
A
Isaac Newton
B
Thomas Hobbes
C
Francis Bacon
D
René Descartes
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