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No, it's a declaration of independence. Not an affirmation of anarchist principles.
You don't. But you can't claim to be making an intellectual argument against his concepts, as opposed to simply petulant rejection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts
A shitload of active wars ongoing right now.
Yeah...after they won the war. Why would you write a constitution while you're fighting for your life against a state that would execute you if you lost?
The Constitution was pretty necessary for there to be an actual well regulated economy between the colonies cum states.
And what, be an illegal immigrant somewhere else, openly excluded from the social contract there?
No, just that your argument is definitively wrong
Don't earn enough for it to be worthwhile for IRS to come after you, more like it.
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The social contract was an abstract philosophical construct aimed at helping understand the core agreements that keep the day to day peace within a society. Not a literal thing.
Like, have you actually read Rousseau at all? It sounds like you haven't.