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The Social Contract

  1. (1762) A major work by Jean-Jacques Rousseau . Rousseau states that governmental organization should be based on the general will of a society and should conform to the nature of human beings, and that the majority in a government has a right to banish resistant minorities.


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"Some people have very complex disabilities. Part of the social contract is they are supported", they said.

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The spokesperson did not immediately clarify which terms Yeezy.com violated, but Shopify informs users on its website they cannot engage in activities that “breach the social contract of commerce” and may not “call for, or threaten, violence against specific people or groups.”

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The Alba Party urged Swinney to reject any proposals from parties "that want to rip up the social contract that Alex Salmond delivered whilst in office".

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Tanton also published and, for many years, edited The Social Contract, a magazine that served as a clearinghouse for his ideas.

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The plan was for Lamm, who was chair of FAIR’s advisory board, and Frank Morris, who was on the Center for Immigration Studies board, to run for seats in 2004, along with a Cornell University environmental scientist named David Pimentel, who had written extensively for The Social Contract.

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