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The Social Contract

The Case for a New Social Contract

Three American Precedents

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Shimon Waldfogel
May 04, 2026
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When the People Demanded More

The idea that America might need a new social contract for the age of AI sounds radical until you remember that Americans have done this before — not once, but repeatedly, and always under the same conditions: a transformation so large that the existing rules no longer protected ordinary people, and a public that organized t…

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