Sample Sentences forsocial contract (editor-reviewed)
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Paying taxes isn’t fun, but many people see it as part of the social contract that funds schools, roads, and emergency services.social contract = an implied agreement in which people accept limits and duties in exchange for the protection and benefits of living in an organized society
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During a public health crisis, debates about masks and vaccines often turn into arguments about the social contract and what people owe one another.
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Some people feel it’s a violation of the social contract when laws aren’t enforced, because the whole deal depends on everyone being held to the same rules.
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... 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)
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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)
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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)
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I have read Prudhomme, I know the Social Contract, I know my constitution of the year Two by heart.† (source)
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Social contract—that's the Enlightenment, that's Rousseau.† (source)
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It's a social contract. (source)social contract = an implied agreement in which people accept limits and duties in exchange for the protection and benefits of living in an organized society
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Their social contract (source)
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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)
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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)
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Some say social contract; which is the same thing, the word contract being etymologically formed with the idea of a bond.† (source)
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The implicit social contract is that upper-class girls will keep their virtue, while young men will find satisfaction in the brothels.† (source)
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