Social ContractThe quality of your individual life would improve greatly in utopia. The burdens you face from corporate monopolies, the crushing weight of the devaluation of your currency, and the lack of trust in your neighbors to achieve a civilization of peace and mutual respect have taken their toll for too long. Although it seems taken directly from George Orwell's own book (1984), the propaganda of a utopian government and the current eternal war breathes as if it were a self-sustaining organization today. Tired of the multiple political parties that emerge every three seconds, we are faced with a question that has been posed since the dawn of logical thought. Is it possible to have both physical and civil freedoms? We all have our own individual ideology within the spectrum of our government. There are conservatives, liberals, Republicans, Democrats, independents, libertarians, and now tea partyers. Everyone has their own unique ideas about government structure and procedures. However, they are all collectively based, some more loosely than others, on the idea of ​​the social contract. Although it is quite difficult to accept, it is impossible to have physical and civil liberties at the same time and it is the social contract that supports this point. So what exactly is the social contract? As defined by Jean Jacques Rousseau, the social contract is the idea that government is based on the idea of ​​popular sovereignty and that the people as a whole directly empower and guide the state (pp. 59-64). The contract is not based on any actual consent, but above all on the voluntary decision to join that State. The social contract therefore represents the logic, which is composed... middle of paper... There are different ways in which the state can be governed. There are ways it could be modified and created. However, people's individual liberties are sacrificed for civil liberties in the interest of the greater good of the state. This is fundamental and cannot be changed. As long as the social contract is not broken, then the state itself, barring uncorrupt governmental control that falls under individual responsibility, will efficiently take care of its peoples and their interests without challenge. Works Cited Nozick, Robert. Anarchy, State and utopia. New York: Basic Books, 1974.Orwell, George. 1984: a novel. New York, NY: Published by Signet Classic, 1977. Rawls, John. A theory of justice: original edition. Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard University press, 2005.Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. The social contract. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968.