According to the question that is given above this paper will attempt to show that, the minority will be oppressed by the social contract as Rousseau claimed in his book that a private contract made within minorities would be illegitimate and damage the main social contract. My thesis has three parts, the first part analyzes the illegitimacy of the private contracts that are made within the minorities and the second part focuses on the damage …
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…majority is important in general and the minority has to obey what the majority has decided. Opinions of the minority is not included in the social contract. This makes the minority to live in a society which does not consist of their free will but the will of the majority. Therefore, the minority is definitely oppressed by the social contract which the majority has decided for them and which is directly opposite to their opinions.