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The Social Contract (Hafner Library of Classics)
The Social Contract - Hafner Library of Classics Author:Jean Jacques Rousseau The Social Contract, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is the book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way in which to set up a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society which he had already identified in his Discourse on Inequality (1754). — The Social Contract helped inspire political reforms or revo... more »lutions in Europe, especially in France. The Social Contract argued against the idea that monarchs were divinely empowered to legislate; as Rousseau asserts, only the people, in the form of the sovereign, have that all-powerful right.« less