Social Contract
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Social Compact · an original Social Contract · theory of free government · voluntary contract of the people
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1 expressionTheory of Free Government“Social Contract”1 mention
An Essay on the Trial by Jury (English)
The theory of free government is that it is formed by the voluntary contract of the people individually with each other.
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Ancient Law
The theory that all law and society originate in an original contractual agreement among individuals.
The Social Contract or Compact is the most systematic form which has ever been assumed by the error we are discussing.
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
The theory that legitimate government arises from the voluntary, individual consent of all its members.
The theory of free government is that it is formed by the voluntary contract of the people individually with each other.
That reason is, that that is the only means by which the government can be kept within the limits of the contract, compact, or constitution, by which the whole people agree to establish government.
And if any portion of the people,—no matter how large their number, if it be less than the whole,—desire a government for any purposes other than those that are common to all, and desired by all, they must form a separate association for those purposes.