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Which act could be considered an acceptance of the social contract

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any right, obligation, and agreements established in an assembly for the regime of the company

Step-by-step explanation:

The social contract is an agreement made within a group by its members, such as that acquired in a State in relation to its rights and obligations and those of its citizens. It is part of the idea that all members of the group agree, of their own accord, with the social contract, by virtue of which they admit the existence of an authority, of moral norms and of laws to which some times The social pact is an explanatory hypothesis of political authority and social order.

The social contract, as a political theory, explains, among other things, the origin and purpose of the State and human rights. The essence of the theory (whose best known formulation is the one proposed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau) is the following: to live in society, human beings agree to an implicit social contract that grants them certain rights in exchange for abandoning the freedom from which they would have in a state of nature. Thus, the rights and duties of the individuals established the clauses of the social contract, while the State is the entity created to fulfill the contract. Similarly, human beings can change the terms of the contract if they wish; rights and duties are not immutable or natural. On the other hand, a greater number of rights involved greater duties, and fewer rights, less obligations.

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Based on choices I've seen elsewhere for this question, the answer is likely: Observing traffic laws in exchange for driving on the highway.

Traffic laws are established by the government, and roads and highways are built by governments (local, state and federal). The "social contract" refers to an implicit agreement between a government and the citizens of the society overseen by that government. Examples that have to do with business exchanges--such as paying an electric bill in exchange for electricity usage--are examples of business contracts rather than "the social contract."

Philosophers of the Enlightenment era were famous for arguing the idea of a "social contract." According to this view, a government's power to govern comes from the consent of the people themselves -- those who are to be governed. This was a change from the previous ideas of "divine right monarchy" -- that a king ruled because God appointed him to be the ruler. One of the most influential of the social contract theorists was John Locke, who repudiated the views of divine right monarchy in his First Treatise on Civil Government. In his Second Treatise on Civil Government, Locke then argued for the rights of the people to create their own governments according to their own desires and for the sake of protecting and enhancing their own life, liberty, and property.

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