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Rousseau’s, “The Social Contract”, published in 1762 after the success of his of several of his previous works, became one of the most influential pieces of abstract political thought in Western tradition. Many historians have in fact argued that Rousseau’s abstract theories on the social contract, that lie at the basis of his treatise, were a direct cause for the French and American Revolutions. Rousseau’s “Social Contract”, directly criticizes and undermines the status …

…is integrally intertwined with the church. He also analyzed and dismissed the separation of church and state as fundamentally bad for a society, another element of the regime, as the French Catholics had to answer to both Louis and the Pope. Rousseau ends his critique, with his idea of a solution, a mixture of Christianity and Catholicism, which as a combination, as a civil religion is contrary to the edicts of any form of Christianity.