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  1. Oct 2017
    1. Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau developed this distinction and wrote treatises on the question of the state of nature, seeking to ground political rights in it.
    2. "state of nature" have been central to the understanding of justice and political order that underlies modern liberal democracy.
    1. mentor, Samuel Huntington of Harvard University, asked me to write a foreword to a reprint edition of his 1968 classic, ‘Political Order in Changing Societies.’