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…showed last 75 words of 447 total…his assertion, "expressed" in his dialogue with the laws, that the state is to be more respected than one's parents. I contend that one would never willingly oblige himself to a totalitarian state in which the laws and the magistrates are to be regarded more highly than one's own family. One would only contract with a government whose power insures the public good and whose establishment seeks the to extend to its citizens utilitarian needs.