we are in ch 9 and i cant find one of my vocab words and it is not on the vocab section. can anyone help, the word is" social contract"
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social contract is probably a very easy word to find in google cuz it
look it up on google
Southlake boy
I'm not entirely sure, i'm doing this off the top of my head from some reading i did like, two years ago.
Social contract is referring to Hobbes (or was it Locke's?) idea that men must mutally agree to subordinate themselves to a government in order to allow it to protect their rights. The social contract is that agreement among the men to form that government as well, and that the monarch or leaders of that government make the decisions for the people.
it gets a lot more technical than that, but thats the basic idea.
I'd reccomend the Second Treatise on Governmetn by Locke, and Hobbes' "Leviathan"
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the post above made me remember, it was Jean-Jacques Rousseau who came up with that idea (couldn't get the full name, wikipedia'd it), and as stated above, it merely means that for order, people must submit to a social contract that a government enforces.
Rousseau was the one who came up with the social contract idea. It is basically is you give up your freedom for order. An example would be "driving". You can drive all over the road, there are rules in which you must obey for order.