UPSC 2017 CDS II GK Paper

Rousseau is the author of the book ‘The Social Contract’. This book helped inspire political reforms or revolutions in Europe, especially in France. It argued against the idea that monarchs were divinely empowered to legislate. Rousseau asserts that only the people who are sovereign have that all-powerful right. Jean Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer and composer of the 18th century, mainly active in France.