Social Contract

Social contract in political philosophy, an actual or hypothetical compact, or agreement, between the ruled and their rules,  defining the rights and duties of each. In primeral times, according to the theory individuals were born into an anarchic state of nature, which was happy or unhappy according to the particular version.  They then,  by exercising natural reason,  formed a society ( & a government by means of a contract among themselves) Encyclopedia of Britannica

Social contract is a theory during the age of Enlightenment and usually concerns the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual. Their 1762 book written by Jean Jacques Rousseau,  he wrote about this concept although the antecedents of social contract theory that found in antiquity,  in Greek and stoic philosophy and Roman and canon law,  it about mid of 17th to early 19 centuries.

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