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The Social Contract

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  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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He is currently the director of The Social Contract and host of the “White Flag with Joe Walsh” podcast.

From Salon ● May 20, 2025

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

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

His famous little treatise, The Social Contract, takes up the great question, By what right does one man rule over others?

From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by James Harvey Robinson

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