The Social Contract, originally published as 'On the Social Contract'; or, 'Principles of Political Rights' by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is a 1762 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).
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- 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.
- Rousseau asserts that only the people, who are sovereign, have that all-powerful right.
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