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Who created the concept of a social contract?

Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Baron de Montesquieu
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Thomas Hobbes.

He was the first major modern philosopher to formulate social contract theory (in Leviathan, 1651). John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau later developed their own versions of the idea.