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JEAN-JACQUES
ROUSSEAU’S THEORY OF LAW AND CIVIL STATE AND ITS RELEVANCE TO NIGERIAN
DEMOCRACY
ABSTRACT
Rousseau’s
ideas of law and civil state are his efforts to improve the government
processes in France during the 18th century enlightenment era. The situation of
France at this time was not palatable as there were social injustices and
inequalities which characterized the state of nature on ground. Among the three
social classes that existed in France at that time, it was the third estate
comprising the third class citizens with less land that paid the highest taxes.
The first and second estates consisting of the first and second class citizens
were exempted from it. This boils down to the state of nature idea of the
strong getting stronger and the weak getting weaker. This gave rise to all the
evils that people perpetrated on one another in this state. Although Rousseau
formulated his theory after reading and analyzing those of Hobbes and Locke,
the scope of his project was not significantly different from theirs’. He
understood society to be an invention, and he attempted to explain the nature
of human beings by stripping them of all of the accidental qualities brought
about by socialization. Thus, understanding human nature amounts to understanding
what humans are like in a pure state of nature, unlike Aristotle’s classical
view which claimed that the state of civil society was the natural human state.
Furthermore, Rousseau acknowledged that self-preservation was one principle of
motivation for human actions, but not the only principle unlike Hobbes. He
concludes that self-preservation or generally self-interest, is only one of the
two principles of the human soul. The second principle is pity; it is an innate
repugnance to see his fellow suffer. Unlike other creatures Rousseau believes
that human beings have reason, although such is not yet developed in the state
of nature. It is this faculty that makes the long transition from the state of
nature to the civil society possible. In the same vein, a proper application of
this Rousseau’s theory of law and civil state can also serve as a conceptual
tool for
improving on
Nigerian democracy.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1
Background of the Study
The choice
of this topic was motivated by the way Nigerian system of government has been
run since the return of democratic rule in the country in 1999. Presently,
Nigerian system of government lacks the true character which depicts what
democracy is all about. This of course is not different from the situation in
pre-revolutionary France during the time of Rousseau that contributed to his
idea of the state of nature. Suffice to note that during this time in France
the state was bankrupted due to mismanagement of the economy. This economic
crisis was as a result of the overwhelming costs incurred by fighting two major
wars – the seven years’ war and the American Revolutionary war. There was also
severe amount of injustice culminating in
social
inequality in the tax system. Here the third estate with the less land was made
to pay the highest tax while the first and second estates that had more lands
paid little or none at all. Because of this, there was “an insistent demand” fo
r reform of these abuses of privilege, for an equitable means of taxation and for
improved government processes. In fact, it was Rousseau’s reaction in the face
of these ugly situations that is believed to have inspired the 1789 French
Revolution. For him, perpetual peace can only be achieved at the price of
revolution.
Now tracing the political history of our country Nigeria since independence
in 1960 it
is clear that the first democratic government ushered in an independent Nigeria
was cut short by a coup in 1966, a counter coup in 1967, civil war from 1967 to
1970, military rule from 1970 when the civil war ended until another coup in
1975 and still another unsuccessful one in 1976.
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