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/sˈoʊʃəl kˈɑntrˌækt/ Listen

Social contract

noun

An implicit agreement among people that results in the organization of society; individual surrenders liberty in return for protection.

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"Social contract" Quotes from Famous Books

... democratic imperialism was the direct offspring of the Revolution with its social contract and its rights of man, it was necessary to combat eighteenth-century ideas and defend the throne and the altar. Great scientific names—Laplace, Bichat, Cuvier, Lamarck—testify to the fact that a movement which made the eighteenth ...

— A History of French Literature - Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. • Edward Dowden

... receive the same treatment. The doctrine of the "social contract" formulated by Hobbes and made current by Rousseau can no longer be accepted as a true account of the origin of society. Jean-Jacques is in fact a supreme case—perhaps even a slight caricature—of the way in which formal creeds bolster up passionate wants. I quote ...

— A Preface to Politics • Walter Lippmann

... with the republic is property which it has no right to touch while other kinds of property are respected; to force their redemption is to violate the social contract, and ...

— What is Property? - An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government • P. J. Proudhon

... of the State. This conception, modified in various ways, by Sarpi's theory of Church and State, by the Jesuit theory of Papal Supremacy, by the counter-theory of the Divine Right of Kings, by theories of Social Contract and the Divine Right of Nations, superseded the elder ideal of Universal Monarchy. It grew originally out of the specific conditions of Italy in the fifteenth century, and acquired force from that habit ...

— Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 - The Catholic Reaction • John Addington Symonds

... of which a hopeful France on a sudden renews with enthusiasm the national oath; of loyalty to the king, the law, the constitution which the National Assembly shall make; in Paris, repeated in every town and district of France! Freedom by social contract; such was verily the ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol XII. - Modern History • Arthur Mee