Which statement accurately describes the concept of a social contract?

The correct answer is:

A. An agreement between people to follow laws and be governed by a leader or leaders.

The social contract concept is part of a theory in moral and political philosophy about the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual.

Social contract theory states that individuals submit to the authority of a ruler, or to the decision of a majority, by surrendering some of their freedoms. In exchange, their other rights, as well as the social order, are guaranteed.

To ensure the success of the Second Five-Year Plan in 1958 Mao launched the The Great Leap Forward campaign.

After the first Five-year Plan, Mao Zeodong, leader of the Communist Party of China (1949-76), felt confident enough to launch a second one called "The Great Leap Forward", which lasted from 1958 through 1962, aiming to organize China's large population into large-scale rural communes that worked to solve its industrial and agricultural problems at the time.