The Social Contractl
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The passage in question is drawn from The Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau, in Book I, Chapter 6. The Social Contract was published in 1762 in Amsterdam in order to escape censorship in Rousseau's native France. It is one of the most influential political treatises ever written, and was one of the prime influences of the political movement that led to the French Revolution. The Social Contract analyzes the contractual relationships that are required to provide a legitimate government. In Chapter 6, Rousseau argues that civil society is based on a contractual arrangement of rights between the governed and their rulers. Rousseau argues that in order to escape the state of nature, where physically strong men rule and all men are free but live in fear, men enter into this contractual agreement tacitly in order to avoid perishing. The main problem, according to Rousseau, is to find some form of association where one's person and goods are protected by the common force of the association, but w
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)
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