So it all comes down to one thing: rights from a Creator. French Revolution you get rights from the group. The social compact, the social contract. What we all agree upon, okay, the media controls what everybody thinks. So all you got to do is be a wealthy person that controls the media and you can control the country. But our Founders said, no. Rights come from a creator, and the government's job is to protect my Creator-given rights. If there is no creator, your rights come from the group. And what the group giveth, the group can taketh awayeth.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, influenced the French Revolution with his political philosophy and his social contract theory. The perspective of many of today’s environmentalists can be traced back to Rousseau, espousing that all degenerates are in man’s hands. The Social Contract (1972), his most important work, outlines the basis for a legitimate political order within a framework of classical republicanism.
