Social contract theory first put forward the idea that "natural human rights and sovereignty belong to the people". At the beginning, it was put forward that "people are born free, but they are everywhere in chains."

The democratic theory advocated by social contract triggered the French Revolution that shocked the world. The French national motto "freedom, equality and fraternity" comes from On Social Contract. In the Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the French National Assembly on 1789, the contents such as "the purpose of society is to seek welfare for the masses" and "sovereignty belongs to the people" also fully reflect the spirit of social contract.

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In On Social Contract, Rousseau mainly expounded the proposition that people are born free, but they are everywhere in chains. This shackle is the country.

Rousseau put forward the rational logic of state creation: human beings want to survive, and individual strength is meager. Personal rights, happiness and property can be better protected in a society with a formal government than in an anarchic society where everyone only cares about himself. The feasible way is to get together and form a consortium, that is, the country.

The purpose of the state is to protect the person and property of each member. Countries can only be the product of free agreements between free people. Everyone is born free and equal. People build a country by concluding contracts, and the country is the combination of people's contracts.

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