<Tr> <Th> Language </Th> <Td> French </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Publication date </Th> <Td> 1762 </Td> </Tr> <P> The Social Contract, or Of the Social Contract, or Principles of Political Law (French: Du contrat social ou Principes du droit politique; 1762) by Jean - Jacques Rousseau, is a book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society, which he had already identified in his Discourse on Inequality (1754). </P> <P> The Social Contract helped inspire political reforms or revolutions in Europe, especially in France . The Social Contract 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 . </P>

Who was the author of the book entitled the social contract