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social contract

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social contract
n.
An agreement among the members of an organized society or between the governed and the government defining and limiting the rights and duties of each.
social contract, compact
n
(Philosophy) (in the theories of Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, and others) an agreement, entered into by individuals, that results in the formation of the state or of organized society, the prime motive being the desire for protection, which entails the surrender of some or all personal liberties
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Noun1.social contract - an implicit agreement among people that results in the organization of society; individual surrenders liberty in return for protection
accord, agreement - harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters; "the two parties were in agreement"


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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.
The Country Doctor by de Balzac, Honore View in context
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.
The Analysis of Mind by Russell, Bertrand View in context
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