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Read the passage below and choose the correct answer 126-130
The state of nature was antecedent to the institution of government, that is, prior to the establishment of government. The state of nature was not an organized society. Each man living therein led a life of his own, uncontrolled by any laws of human imposition. Nor was there any human authority to regulate his relations with others. Men living in the state of nature were subject only to such regulations as nature was supposed to prescribe for them. This code of regulations was given the name of the law of nature, or natural law. All thinkers agreed that those who lived in the state of nature were ultimately compelled, for one reason or the other, to abandon it and substitute the state of nature by a civil society or a body politic where each man led a life of union with his other fellowmen. The law of nature, which regulated the conduct of the individuals who lived in the state of nature, was replaced by man-made laws.
Thus emerged civil society and it was the result of a mutual consent or contract: man taking upon himself the duty of observing and obeying all those laws which assured the safety and protection of all other members of the newly organized community or body politic. These laws were prescribed by the mutually agreed authority. Human law was, accordingly, substituted for the natural law and in return for natural rights every man found himself clothed with social rights. These rights were maintained and guaranteed by the mutually established authority.
Read the passage below and choose the correct answer 126-130
The state of nature was antecedent to the institution of government, that is, prior to the establishment of government. The state of nature was not an organized society. Each man living therein led a life of his own, uncontrolled by any laws of human imposition. Nor was there any human authority to regulate his relations with others. Men living in the state of nature were subject only to such regulations as nature was supposed to prescribe for them. This code of regulations was given the name of the law of nature, or natural law. All thinkers agreed that those who lived in the state of nature were ultimately compelled, for one reason or the other, to abandon it and substitute the state of nature by a civil society or a body politic where each man led a life of union with his other fellowmen. The law of nature, which regulated the conduct of the individuals who lived in the state of nature, was replaced by man-made laws.
Thus emerged civil society and it was the result of a mutual consent or contract: man taking upon himself the duty of observing and obeying all those laws which assured the safety and protection of all other members of the newly organized community or body politic. These laws were prescribed by the mutually agreed authority. Human law was, accordingly, substituted for the natural law and in return for natural rights every man found himself clothed with social rights. These rights were maintained and guaranteed by the mutually established authority.
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