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What is a social contract?

What is a social contract? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (philosophy) An implicit agreement or contract among members of a society governing such matters as submission of individuals to rule of law and acceptable conduct.
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As is true in society, an implicit social contract serves as the basis for maintaining order in schools.
Differences too congealed into a social contract in which privileges and economic inequalities were communal goods.
In a democratic regime, relations between individuals are commonly regulated by a social contract.
Voltaire helped us laugh and question, and Rousseau theorized the social contract our societies are based on.
The Mayflower Compact was a social contract the pilgrims signed in November 1620 in order to establish law and order in the new colony.
This is because, in forming a state, citizens join in a social contract, and abrogate their right of free action to the sovereign body.

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