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[ noun ] an implicit agreement among people that results in the organization of society; individual surrenders liberty in return for protection
Used in print (Brainard Cheney, "Christianity and the Tragic Vision-Ut...)That John_Locke 's philosophy of the social_contract fathered the American_Revolution with its Declaration_of_Independence , I believe , we generally accept . Yet , after Rousseau had given the social_contract a new twist with his notion of the General Will , the same philosophy , it may be said , became the idea source of the French_Revolution also . Related terms |
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