Who came up with the idea of a social contract between government and their people that people give up their rights to the government in return the government protects its people?

The idea of a social contract, where individuals consent to surrender some of their freedoms to an authority in exchange for protection and order, is most famously associated with philosophers like Thomas Hobbes, john Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Hobbes, in his work "Leviathan," argued that people give up rights to a sovereign in return for security. Locke, however, emphasized that the government's role is to protect individual rights, while Rousseau focused on the collective agreement of the general will. These ideas laid the groundwork for modern political theory regarding the relationship between governments and their citizens.