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The Social Contract was made because a man named Jean Jacques Rousseau believed that people were basically good, and that society, and its unequal distribution of wealth, were the cause of most problems. He believed that government should be run according to the will of the majority, which he called the General Will. He claimed the General Will would always act in the best interest of the people.

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