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much higher post. Politicians are always self-centered they have nothing to do with the people of
nation and their problems. Thus, while applying the statement given by Mr. Churchill it can be
said that if the politicians look after the problems of people and solve their issue then it can be
said that the nation may become strong.
The Social Contract:
Rousseau’s main argument in the Social Contract is that “government achieves its rights to exist
and regulate by the approval of the governed.”4 This may not seem a concept too severe today,
but when The Social Contract was released, it was a radical stance. The Social Contract is one of
the most significant statements in the history of western political philosophy about the natural
rights of man. It brought the concept of the approval of the governed and the people’s inalienable
sovereignty in fresh and strong ways, as opposed to the state sovereignty or its ruler(s)5.
The Social contract of Rousseau’s starts with the most popular phrases he ever wrote:
“Men are born free, yet everywhere they are in chains6”
Rousseau’s research discusses liberty more than any other issue of political philosophy and seeks
to clarify how man is blessed with an enviable complete liberty in the state of nature. Firstly,
natural person is physically safe because he is not restricted by a repressive government
mechanism or dominated by his fellow people. Secondly, because he is not bound by any of the
artificial requirements that characterize contemporary nature, he is mentally and intellectually
free. A particularly insightful and revolutionary element of Rousseau’s philosophy is this second
feeling of liberty, the liberty from need. Rousseau thought that enslavement of modern man to
his own requirements was accountable for all kinds of social ills, from exploitation and other
people’s domination to bad self-esteem and depression. He thought that good government should
have as its most basic goal the liberty of its entire people.
4 Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract Discourses (Create Space Independent Publishing
Platform,2015) 248
5 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, (E-Artnow,2018) 198
6 Brian Skyrms, Evolution of the Social Contract, (Cambridge University Press,2014) 148

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