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| so·cial con·tract (plural so·cial con·tracts) or so·cial com·pact (plural so·cial com·pacts) |
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agreement of social rights and duties: an agreement among individual people in a society or between the people and their government that outlines the rights and duties of each party. It derives from the ideas of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau and involves people giving up freedoms in return for benefits such as state protection.
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