The Social Contract
Of the Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right (Du contrat social ou Principes du droit politique; 1762) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society, which he had already identified in his Discourse on Inequality (1754). The Social Contract helped inspire political reforms or revolutions in Europe, especially in France. The Social Contract argued against the idea that monarchs were divinely empowered to legislate; as Rousseau asserts, only the people, who are sovereign, have that all-powerful right. (from wikipedia.org)
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| The Social Contract & Discourses Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778; translated by George Douglas Howard Cole, 1889-1959. Publisher: London, Dent. Book Contributor Robarts - University of Toronto. |
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