# The Social Contract

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- Libro: [The Social Contract](https://www.archivodelibros.es/jean-jacques-rousseau/en/the-social-contract) ([The Social Contract.md](https://www.archivodelibros.es/jean-jacques-rousseau/en/the-social-contract.md))
- Autores: [Jean-Jacques Rousseau](https://www.archivodelibros.es/jean-jacques-rousseau)
- Editorial: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4044-201-4
- Páginas: 192
- Publicación: 2003-07-31
- Idioma: en_GB
- Encuadernación: Softcover

## Descripción

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains' These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, or 'social contract', that should exist between all the citizens of a state and that should be the source of sovereign power. From this fundamental premise, he goes on to consider issues of liberty and law, freedom and justice, arriving at a view of society that has seemed to some a blueprint for totalitarianism, to others a declaration of democratic principles.