Rousseau and Machiavelli

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Rousseau believed that the government should return small communities that were not ruled by a government with major power over them. I think that Rousseau would approve of democracy because there is a government however it does not take away the original way that humans used to live, small communities.

    Rousseau would probably like to see rulers that stayed away from governing to much and letting the small communities exist within themselves. He would definitely be one that would like to see a government where the rulers use very little power over their subjects.

Niccolo Machiavelli

    Machiavelli would not have agreed with Rousseau by any means. He believed that without enough governing people will run amuck. He would probably agree with the need for change but not in the form of a rebellion since it is so violent. As for Jefferson, I think that he takes a good balance of both men's advice.