how should I define this in my own words? Social Contract... what is it?
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A social contract or political contract is an agreement between the people of a state and the government of a state. The people agree to follow certain rules made by the government. They saw good government as coming from social contracts. Rousseau wrote a book called The Social Contract.
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an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection. Theories of a social contract became popular in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries among theorists such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as a means of explaining the origin of government and the obligations of subjects.
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