Download or read book The Social Contract written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1998 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rousseau argues for the preservation of individual freedom min political society. An individual can only be free under the law, he says, by voluntarily embracing that law as his own. This text is not only a defence of civil society, but also a study of the darker side of political systems.