The "Social Compact" not recognised in the Divine Institute.
By the Constitution of Government, is meant, in every community, the great social compact which binds together the individual members into one body politic or political society.
Footnote: In an epitome of the Social Compact, inserted by Rousseau in the fifth book of Émile, he thus defines the terms of that compact.
There was nothing original with Rousseau in the idea of a social compact.
But what follows is more original: in forming a social compact, men do not abdicate all their sovereignty as in the hypothesis of Rousseau; they do not even abdicate a certain portion of all their rights.
In forming a society and in accepting a social compact, the first rights were to be reserved and to remain inalienable; rights of the second class, on the contrary, were partly given up in exchange for more security.
For a student of government this was the most fascinating situation that could be devised, since he was going to witness the actual formation of a new society and the signing of a social compact.
He told Professor Saint Fond in 1782 that the "Social Compact" would one day avenge Rousseau for all the persecutions he had suffered from the powers that were.
His 'Social Compact' will one day avenge all the persecutions he suffered.
I do not complain of this idea of a "social compact," when the idea is presented merely as a justification of government, or as an explanation of the propriety, necessity and equity of Law.
Human government is not founded on any such "social compact" at all.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "social compact" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
