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What is a social contract

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an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection Theories of a social contract became popular in the 16th 17th and 18th centuries among theorists such as Thomas Hobbes John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau as a means of explaining the origin of government and the obligations of subjects

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