The Social Contract

             What Rousseau is trying to say in his work called “The Social Contract” is that people have the right to do whatever they want as long as they respect what is called the social order. They might lose their natural liberty (which is basically the freedom to do whatever they want) "Man is born free, and everywhere else he is in chains." (Rousseau, 114) -- but gain civil liberty which makes them free to do whatever they want with respect to the society that they are living in. As well, they have control over their possessions, in contrary to when social order is not respected and everyone can do whatever he wants without being punished, inevitably leading to chaos.

             I think social contract has limits when it comes to dictatorship for example, because the people will have much less freedom than other people (such as people that live in countries based on democracy) and will be under the unfair control of the dictator, which can basically do whatever he wants.

             In the picture that is attached (picture of the White House), it is clear that there are barriers that prevent people from going inside the White House. It prevents people from entering a private residence (President’s residence) and at the same time it prevents people from attacking the “country”. It is part of the social contract that makes people be private and have the right to live peacefully, and the social contract that makes people live under a certain set of rules that makes the society an organized and peaceful one.  

Works Cited:

Sinno Z., R., Bioghlu-Karkanawi L., Fleszar D., N. Jarkas, Moughabghab E., Nish J. M., RantisiR., Ward A. (Eds.). Shifting Narratives: A Reader for Academic Writing. Educart (MiddleEast)

Publishing: Beirut, 2015.