social contractin a sentence
- It's a social contract.'† (source)
- The implicit social contract is that upper-class girls will keep their virtue, while young men will find satisfaction in the brothels.† (source)
- Press freedom has also been enshrined by Parliament and is based on the socially and democratically acceptable restrictions of society, that is, the social contract that makes up the framework of a civilized society.† (source)
- Peter was, simply, what a person would look like if you boiled down the most raw emotions and filtered them of any social contract.† (source)
- Social contract—that's the Enlightenment, that's Rousseau.† (source)
- I have read Prudhomme, I know the Social Contract, I know my constitution of the year Two by heart.† (source)
- I believe we can walk side by side a little farther down this path by tracing the state to a social contract, which takes sin into account and protects against injustice and which we both therefore regard as the origin of sovereign authority.† (source)
- …respects all who emigrated to British America were similar—In what they differed—Remark applicable to all Europeans who established themselves on the shores of the New World—Colonization of Virginia—Colonization of New England—Original character of the first inhabitants of New England—Their arrival—Their first laws—Their social contract—Penal code borrowed from the Hebrew legislation—Religious fervor—Republican spirit—Intimate union of the spirit of religion with the spirit of liberty.† (source)
- …and officers, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony: unto which we promise all due submission and obedience," etc. *i [Footnote i: The emigrants who founded the State of Rhode Island in 1638, those who landed at New Haven in 1637, the first settlers in Connecticut in 1639, and the founders of Providence in 1640, began in like manner by drawing up a social contract, which was acceded to by all the interested parties.† (source)
- Some say social contract; which is the same thing, the word contract being etymologically formed with the idea of a bond.† (source)
- All those words: rights of the people, rights of man, the social contract, the French Revolution, the Republic, democracy, humanity, civilization, religion, progress, came very near to signifying nothing whatever to Grantaire.† (source)