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| | Encyclopedia: Social contract theories |
 | | Social contract is a phrase used in philosophy, political science, and sociology to denote a real or hypothetical agreement within a state regarding the rights and responsibilities of the state and its citizens, or more generally a similar concord between a group and its members. | | | Thus, the rights (and responsibilities) of individuals are the terms of the social contract, and the state is the entity created for the purpose of enforcing that contract. | | | This is a contract which serves the perpetuity of the nation state as newborns do not have the capability to consent to the contract; thus the contract should be rendered null and void. |
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| | Learn more about Social contract theories in the online encyclopedia. |
| | A social contract theory of the state is any theory which says that the existence of the state is morally justified by some sort of agreement, often called a "social contract," that is said hold among the residents of a particular geographical area over which the state has authority. | | | All that the social contract theory says is that, if we are party to a social contract, then we're morally bound to give up our liberty to initiate force, and the government that is given that same liberty is legitimate. | | | Locke also didn't think that the social contract was a hypothetical agreement; he thought it was an actual agreement. |
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| | Social Contract Theory [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Patriarchal control of women is found in at least three paradigmatic contemporary contracts: the marriage contract, the prostitution contract, and the contract for surrogate motherhood. | | | Locke’s arguments for the social contract, and for the right of citizens to revolt against their king were enormously influential on the democratic revolutions that followed, especially on Thomas Jefferson, and the founders of the United States. | | | According to the terms of the marriage contract, in most states in the U.S., a husband is accorded the right to sexual access, prohibiting the legal category of marital rape. |
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| | Social contract theories - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Social contract theories |
| | The area of ‘trust’ or discretion allowed to the monarch as chief of the executive is thus limited by the intentions of those entering society (‘...the preservation of their lives, liberties and estates’ through the establishment of known, binding, and universally applicable laws). | | | In Hobbes's version the position of free individuals ‘in a state of nature’ is presented as so dire that they contract to submit all except their actual lives to the will of the sovereign who thus exercises an almost absolute political authority. | | | In Locke's formulation the contract is amongst the individuals in a more orderly state of nature, possessing ‘natural law’, a moral force limiting contractors as to what they can promise. |
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| | SOCIAL CONTRACT - LoveToKnow Article on SOCIAL CONTRACT |
| | Locke (Treatise on Government) differed from Hobbes in so far as he described the pre-social state as one of freedom, and held that private property must have been recognized, though there was no security. | | | To properly cite this SOCIAL CONTRACT article in your work, copy the complete reference below: | | | Rousseau (Contrat social) held that in the pre-social state man was unwarlike and even timid. |
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