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The Social Contract - Hardcover

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

 
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Synopsis

The Social Contract argues against the idea that monarchs were divinely empowered to legislate. Rousseau asserts that only the sovereign people have that all-powerful right.

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About the Author

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778 was a Genevan philosopher (philosophe), writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the development of modern political, economic, and educational thought.

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