The General is a 1926 silent comedy film directed by and starring Buster Keaton. The film tells the story of a Southern railroad engineer who attempts to rescue his beloved locomotive, The General, from Union spies during the American Civil War. The film is widely considered to be one of the greatest
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In political philosophy, the general will is the will of the people as a whole. The term was made famous by 18th-century Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. It can be considered as an early, informal predecessor to the idea of a social welfare function in social choice theory.