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.
Rousseau wrote The Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right in which he explained that the government is based on the idea of popular sovereignty. Thus the will of the people as a whole gives power and direction to the state. John Locke also based his political writings on the idea of the social contract.