According to this Enlightenment thinker’s book The Social Contract, citizens give their consent to let the government rule was developed by Question 12 options:

Locke

Voltaire

Rousseau

Montesquieu

Rousseau.

Explanation:

Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote, "The Social Contract" which argues that a person's beliefs and views are dependent on a contract between the person and the society. In other words, it means that there exists a political agreement or contract between a government and a citizen with regard to one's moral and political obligations.

Through this book, Rousseau argues that the government did have the right to govern the people but only through the people's choices. This, in short, is on the basis of the "govern for the people and by the people" theory of a democratic government.

Thus, the correct answer is Rousseau.

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