ts were obliged to protect through the representation of the people in parliaments and assemblies.
             And should hose assemblies fail to fulfil their contractual obligations to the people, then elections would ensure the incumbency of new representative charged with carrying out the people's wishes. A monarch exercising executive power outside any representative mechanism was clearly not legitimate. Since it was an agreement, the people had the right to overthrow the government power if they felt it did not promote these aims. This idea of a social contract, as it was called, was very popular with the Founding Fathers. What the Founding Fathers feared the most was despotism or the
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