PLEASE HELP!! (15 points will be given and mark brainliest) question: what do you think Rousseau means by government independence?

Rousseau argued that the general will of the people could not be decided by elected representatives. He believed in a direct democracy in which everyone voted to express the general will and to make the laws of the land. Rousseau had in mind a democracy on a small scale, a city-state like his native Geneva.

political ideal combines the enthusiasm for civic virtue characteristic of ancient political thought with the moderns' insistence on the centrality of human freedom, calling for the establishment of a republic based on a social contract in which each citizen agrees with all the rest to be bound by the community's ...

Summary: Jean-Jacques Rousseau did not directly influence the Declaration of Independence; however, his writings on political theory and the social contract were influential to Thomas Jefferson and the drafting of the Declaration.

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no because we were not ready for war