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Social Contract: Interpretation and Misinterpretation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2009
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- Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , March 1976 , pp. 63 - 76
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- Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique 1976
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