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

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

In 1762, he explained his political philosophy in a book called The Social Contract.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

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

The Social Contract was his answer, and there we can see the living idea of equality detaching itself from the dead theory of degradation.

From The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth by Bury, J. B. (John Bagnell)