Correct Option: D

The general will, made famous by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, is a concept in political philosophy referring to the will of the people as a whole. As used by Rousseau, the “general will” is identical to the rule of law. The phrase, “general will” as Rousseau used it, occurs in Article Six of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, composed in 1789 during the French Revolution.