USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The social contract is based on the express or implied consent of the people to give up some of the freedoms that they enjoyed in the state of nature in exchange for the protection of their remaining rights and the maintenance of social order.

Detailed explanation-2: -Social contract arguments typically are that individuals have consented, either explicitly or tacitly, to surrender some of their freedoms and submit to the authority (of the ruler, or to the decision of a majority) in exchange for protection of their remaining rights or maintenance of the social order.

Detailed explanation-3: -This is the “social contract": and agreement that each of us must give up some of our will to rule over others; I curtail my absolute liberty in exchange for you curtailing yours.

Detailed explanation-4: -Rousseau’s solution was for people to enter into a social contract. They would give up all their rights, not to a king, but to “the whole community, ” all the people.

Detailed explanation-5: -Social contract theory says that people live together in society in accordance with an agreement that establishes moral and political rules of behavior. Some people believe that if we live according to a social contract, we can live morally by our own choice and not because a divine being requires it.