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social contract |
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social contract or compact Noun an agreement among individuals to cooperate for greater security, which results in the loss of some personal liberties
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The SOCIAL CONTRACT founded upon this basis will be a perpetual pact between those who have and those who have not. How these roots acquired their meanings is not known, but a conventional origin is clearly just as mythical as the social contract by which Hobbes and Rousseau supposed civil government to have been established. |
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