Correct answer:
Enlightened monarchy
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. He still saw a monarch as being in charge as the executive figure in government, but the monarch would rule as a civil servant of the people.
