Which of the Enlightenment thinkers would agree with the idea that people are naturally good but bad governments can corrupt them?

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau would agree with this idea. He believed that individuals were inherently good but were corrupted by society and institutions, such as governments, that placed restrictions on their freedom and corrupted their natural state of being.

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