The book "The Social Contract" by the great philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau is one of the most important intellectual books written in the Renaissance and the Enlightenment in the West. After the fall of religious legitimacy as the basis of governance in Europe, it became necessary to search for an alternative legitimacy on which political governance is based and on which the responsibilities of the ruler and the ruler are determined, and the duties and rights of each of them are determined.

Many intellectuals and philosophers emerged who worked to find a new legal charter governing the relationship between the two parties, and among those intellectuals who sought to find this charter was Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who put forward the idea of a social contract along with another group of Enlightenment thinkers such as Thomas Hobbes and John Locke.