Correct answer:
Rousseau
The line quoted in the question is the opening line from Jean-Jacques Rousseau's famous book, The Social Contract (1762). Rousseau saw the natural state of mankind as one of freedom, but that in organizing societies and forming governments, human beings had chained themselves into arrangements that inhibited their freedom. He advocated a better form of social contract in which the people retained the role of authority in their own government systems. Rousseau's idea of popular sovereignty was that the "general will" of the people is always right. That didn't just mean majority wins sort of voting, but that the people indeed always know what's right for them in their own societies.
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