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Adams controverts, maintaining in opposition to it that the social compact constituting the body-politic is, and by the law of nature must be, a compact not merely of individuals, but of families.
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Quincy presents Adams's counterargument to Rousseau, asserting that the social compact includes families, not just individuals.
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