This concept allows individuals to act as “constrained maximizers” according to David Gauthier. Derek Parfit’s “Triple Theory” argues that Kantian ethics, rule consequentialism, and a system based on this concept converge to the same conclusion. Inspired by (-5[1])Carole Pateman, Charles W. Mills reformulated this concept along racial lines. An ethical system based on this concept was developed in T. M. Scanlon’s What We Owe to Each Other. A treatise on this concept, which argues that laws are not legitimate unless they follow the “general will,” opens “Man is born free, and (10[1])everywhere (-5[1])he is in chains.” For 10 points, name (-5[1])this concept coined in a Jean-Jacques Rousseau (10[1])book that envisions communities as agreeing to certain rights and responsibilities. ■END■ (10[2]0[2])