The Social Contract

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take it back, or there was no justification for taking it away from it. But the social order is a sacred right, which serves as the basis for all others. However, this right does not come from nature; it is therefore founded on conventions: it is a matter of knowing what these conventions are. Before coming to that, I must establish what I have just asserted.

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