The Social Compact
idea · 3 works · 5 mentions · 9 anchored passages
social compact · the social compact · compacts · conventions · the Social Compact · the general will
spoken of as
1 expressionSocial Compact2 mentions
Ancient Law (English) · Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated (English)
It is some shifting sandbank in which the grains are Individual men, that according to the theory of Hobbes is hardened into the social rock by the wholesome discipline of force.
in the texts
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
The founding agreement by which individuals surrender portions of their natural liberty to form a society bound by mutual obligation.
a sacred dogma, without which there can be no lawful society;
Laws are the conditions under which men, naturally independent, united themselves in society.
How then can laws resist the inevitable force of time, if there be not a lasting monument of the social compact?
Ancient Law
Hobbesian theory positing that society is formed by individuals subscribing to a compact.
It is some shifting sandbank in which the grains are Individual men, that according to the theory of Hobbes is hardened into the social rock by the wholesome discipline of force.
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The theory of an agreement between people and their rulers, described as not truly applicable to the United States, where sovereignty remained in the people who merely deputed agents.
“The far-famed social compact between the people and their rulers, did not apply to the United States.