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    The Social Contract
    The Social Contract
    The Social Contract
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    The Social Contract

    By Skye Blue

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    By what authority does your government govern you? Do they have your explicit consent? Did they ask for your permission? And why is it that our paid employees, the politicians, tell us what the rules are? Don't we own and pay for the government to exist? For hundreds of years people have explored the relationship between government and the People - here is a new look at this critical issue.
    Perhaps there is a better way for us to govern our societies. Perhaps its time we wrote our own constitutions, rather than being enslaved to the views of people who lived hundreds of years ago. Perhaps there is a better way.
    Imagine if we, the People, set the tax rate each year. Wouldn't that we an interesting world?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSkye Blue
    Release dateApr 2, 2014
    ISBN9781310605215
    The Social Contract
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    Skye Blue

    Skye Blue - Australian author, visionary and political/ social commentator.

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      The Social Contract - Skye Blue

      THE SOCIAL CONTRACT

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      The Social Contract

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      Dedicated to all those who seek freedom.

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This is a work of fiction, the characters are not real. Please do not distribute this ebook freely, you can purchase a copy at your nearest online retailer.

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      WHAT IS A SOCIAL CONTRACT?

      THE WORLD TODAY

      A PEOPLE’S CONSTITUTION

      WRITING THE SOCIAL CONTRACT

      THE OUTSIDERS

      IN CONCLUSION

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      THE SOCIAL CONTRACT

      INTRODUCTION

      For hundreds of years people with too much time on their hands have philosophised about the relationship between we, the People, and this thing called Government, and at one point in time, around the 17th to 19th centuries, it was quite a popular topic, amongst the intellectual elite – they loved to think about the idea of the Social Contract. Not that it has done any of us any good!

      Here I am, living in the 21st century, and there is

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