Rousseau explains his social contract by, philosophical justification. According to him group of people which enter into the civil society by, their own will is known as, sovereign. The sovereign is the metaphor used for the unified will of the people. This principle is used for unified or general will of people because each individual in society has different needs, wants and opinion, however, sovereign refer to the collective will of people. Rousseau says that, legislature should formulate the law keeping in view the general will of people. And the government role is to only execute those law which are the general will of people. In this way people will have complete freedom because, law is formulated according to their will, they have entered in a social contract with government and with one another. If someone’s breaks the law he will have to face the punishment because he deviated from his own will and social contract.     

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