The Social Contract

Cultural  

1. (1762) A major work by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau states that governmental organization should be based on the general will of a society and should conform to the nature of human beings, and that the majority in a government has a right to banish resistant minorities.

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Example Sentences

Kolankiewicz took a job with Roy Beck, the Tanton protégé and former Washington editor of The Social Contract, who went on to found a slightly less strident “immigration reform” organization called NumbersUSA.

From Salon • Nov. 14, 2024

Tanton also published and, for many years, edited The Social Contract, a magazine that served as a clearinghouse for his ideas.

From Salon • Nov. 14, 2024

The tension between state authority and the right of individuals to make decisions for themselves likewise inspired the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose contributions to Enlightenment philosophy included his influential treatise The Social Contract.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

The man who most changed that was Roy Beck, who spent several years as Washington editor of The Social Contract, Dr. Tanton’s journal.

From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2011

Unconsciously thus in part was formed the dreamer of the "Émile" and of "The Social Contract."

From Classic French Course in English by Wilkinson, William Cleaver