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...states source of authority from that of government. The state rests on a [[social contract]]. A government is entrusted with powers in order to protect life, liberty,

...materialism of the wise’ or ‘civil religion’. In politics, his theory of [[Social contract]] went beyond the economic [[Liberalism]] of English thinkers and the Posit ===Émile and the Social Contract===

* Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. ''[[The Social Contract]]''

.../files.libertyfund.org/files/638/0132_Bk.pdf Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: ''The Social Contract''(1762), The Online Library of Liberty]

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...ent of the concept of universal [[human rights]] and of the concept of a [[social contract]]. ...cques Rousseau]] (1712-1778) French Enlightenment thinker. Author of ''The Social Contract''.

...he state, which obviously attempt to justify the state with reference to a social contract real or otherwise. Such contractarian theories obviously do say something a ...ick is a minimal state libertarian who basically endorses a version of the social contract theory that is based on the idea that the state is justified simply because

According to thinkers in the social contract tradition, justice is derived from the mutual agreement of everyone concern In his ''A Theory of Justice'', John Rawls used a social contract argument to show that justice, and especially distributive justice, is a fo

...duals vis a vis political authority, and in a sense constitutes the state. Social contract theories usually emphasize the need for consent to legitimate state power, * [[Social contract]]

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...uals can. Often, this idea of agreement between peers is formalised by a [[social contract]] argument.

...ref>[http://www.constitution.org/jjr/socon.htm Jean-Jacques Rousseau ''The Social Contract'']</ref> was a fiction, but it provided the basis for an examination of w ...ts continuing ability to perform its side of what is perceived to be the "social contract". Legitimacy once conferred, can be withdrawn for inadequate performance,

...ands on the brink of disaster economically. The shape and condition of our social contract a year from now is debatable if the economic crisis can not be mitigated. I

...the community.<br> [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] developed the concept of the social contract a stage further by examining the means by which its terms could be delivere .../files.libertyfund.org/files/638/0132_Bk.pdf Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: ''The Social Contract'', The Online Library of Liberty, Page 30]</ref><br>

...cques Rousseau''', ''[[The Social Contract]]'', II, 6.<ref>Rousseau, ''The Social Contract'', [http://www.constitution.org/jjr/socon_02.htm#006 Book II: Chapter 6 (La

...'s "fusion" of classical republicanism and social contract theory in ''The Social Contract'' such that civic virtue and the general will were inextricably linked; one ...ong other things they contributed and/or heavily elaborated notions like [[social contract]] (emphasised by Rousseau), and the [[separation of powers]]. They also bor

...hanges have been so gradual&ndash;we opt out of the public sphere and the "social contract" for the sake of a protected setting.

...cance was the liberalism of [[John Locke]], including his theory of the "[[social contract]]". This had a great influence on the revolution as it implied the inborn

...://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext02/lvthn10.txt] - defines government as, a social contract by which power is irrevocably delegated to an absolute sovereign.