Social Contract (Rousseau)
Jean-Jaques Rousseau's Social Contract greatly differed from that of Thomas Hobbes. For Hobbes, the contract was an agreement between society and its government. For Rousseau, it was an agreement between individuals to create a society and a government. Like John Locke, Rousseau believed that a government should come from the consent of the governed. In his social contract, Rousseau wrote, "The heart of the idea of the social contract may be stated simply: Each of us places his person and authority under the supreme direction of the general will, and the group receives each individual as an indivisible part of the whole..."