ffect on the constitutional form of liberal democracies for more then two centuries (Kagan, 605).
             Rousseau view on political power was quite opposite from Montesquieu (Kagan, 605). He blamed much of the evil in the world on the uneven distribution of property (Kagan, 605). Rousseau suggested that society was more important then its individual members, because they are what they are only by virtue of their relationship to the larger community (Kagan, 606). He envisioned a society in which each person could maintain personal freedom while behaving as a loyal member of the larger community. Rousseau defined freedom as obedience to law (Kagan, 606). The law to be created was that created by general will (Kagan, 606).
             The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens was based on political lan
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