![]() ![]() During the Enlightenment, Rousseau argued that the people controlling the state oppressed the bulk of the population, thus a reform in the political system had to occur. Rousseau’s idea of the Social Contract was modeled from the political system of the ancient Greek polis. The Social Contract appeared several years prior to the French revolution however it became one of the most influential texts during that period in France.1 Rousseau’s work encouraged individual membership and participation within the state they belonged to, thus supported the basic democratic ideals of the French revolution. ![]() He continued his argument by suggesting that an agreement should be formed, in which all individuals give up their natural liberty in order to create a general will, which in turn would represent the sovereign state. Rousseau argued that no one person was entitled to have natural authority over others. Jean Jacques Rousseau, a French political philosopher, published The Social Contract in 1762, during the peak of the French Enlightenment. ![]()
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