Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Jurist
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- School
- Social Contract
- Theory
- Social Contract; popular sovereignty; the General Will (volonté générale); "man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains".
- Quote
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
- Books
The Social Contract (Du Contrat Social, 1762), Émile (1762), Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (1755)
- Propounded
Social Contract; General Will (volonte generale); popular sovereignty
- Born
- 1712
- Died
- 1778
- Portrait
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