D. Marquis de Condorcet • War and prejudice will disappear when people
learn to use reason.
E. Jean Jacques Rousseau
People originally lived without government.
People form a social contract when they join to-
gether for protection of themselves and their
property.
1. "The time will come... when we shall
learn how to recognize and so to destroy, by force
of reason, the first seeds of tyranny and supersti-
tion."
2. "Experience shows us that every man in-
vested with power is apt to abuse it... to prevent
this abuse, it is necessary... that power should be
a check to power."
3. "The heart of the idea of the social con-
tract may be stated simply: Each of us places his
person and authority under the supreme direction
of the general will (of society) and the group re-
ceives each individual as an indivisible part of the
whole."
.
4. "By what right could a being, created free,
force another to think like himself?... tolerance has
never brought civil war; intolerance has covered the
earth with carnage."

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in the 1800s, chinese workers migrated to the united states, first to work in the gold mines, but also to take agricultural jobs, and factory work, especially in the garment industry. chinese immigrants were particularly instrumental in building railroads in the american west, and as chinese laborers grew successful in the united states, a number of them became entrepreneurs in their own right. as the numbers of chinese laborers increased, so did the strength of anti-chinese sentiment among other workers in the american economy. this finally resulted in legislation that aimed to limit future immigration of chinese workers to the united states, and threatened to sour diplomatic relations between the united states and china.

polisit can also mean a body of citizens. in modern historiography, polis is normally used to indicate the ancient greek city-states, like classical athens and its contemporaries, and thus is often translated as "city-state". the body of citizens came to be the most important meaning of the term polis in ancient greece.