Historical Examples. 1  And let the same rule be observed about the registration of the property of the metics. Laws Plato.  2 Let me see the registration slip from the Prefecture, he said, at last. The Destroyer Burton Egbert Stevenson. 3  The poet's registration in the parish records at Stratford is dated April 26, 1564.
After years of thought Rousseau wrote a book on the origins of government, 'The Social Contract', stating that no laws are binding unless agreed upon by the people. This idea deeply affected French thinking, and it became one of the chief forces that brought on the French Revolution about 30 years later.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712â1778) Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the most influential thinkers during the Enlightenment in eighteenth century Europe. His first major philosophical work, A Discourse on the Sciences and Arts, was the winning response to an essay contest conducted by the Academy of Dijon in 1750. In this work, Rousseau argues that the progression of the sciences and arts has caused the corruption of virtue and morality.