The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before.” This is the fundamental problem of which the Social Contract provides the solution.