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Definition of Social contract
1. Noun. An implicit agreement among people that results in the organization of society; individual surrenders liberty in return for protection.
Definition of Social contract
1. Noun. (philosophy politics) An implicit agreement or contract among members of a society that dictates things such as submission of individuals to rule of law and acceptable conduct. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Social Contract
Literary usage of Social contract
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Continental Legal History Series by Association of American Law Schools (1915)
"The social contract. — It was by the social contract that this consent was given.
... The first of these acts was the social contract properly so called ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1904)
"In the social contract we are told that the civil is preferable to the natural
condition, since in it duty takes the place of physical impulse, ..."
3. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"Though it is quite obvious that the theory of a social contract (or compact, as
it is also called) contains a considerable element of truth—that loose ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"'The social contract» was published in 1762, and was regarded as the catechism
of the ... 'The social contract' has little or no claim to originality, ..."
5. English Political Philosophy from Hobbes to Maine by William Graham (1899)
"There was no social contract by which men passed from a state of nature into civil
... Even if there had been a social contract made ages ago by barbarous ..."
6. The Theory of the State by Johann Caspar Bluntschli, David George Ritchie, Percy Ewing Matheson, Richard Lodge (1885)
"According to Rousseau men pass from the state of nature to the social state by
the social contract (as on Hobbes's theory), but the sovereign to whom each ..."
7. The Theory of State by Johann Caspar Bluntschli (1895)
"According to Rousseau men pass from the state of nature to the social state by
the social contract (as on Hobbes's theory), but the sovereign to whom each ..."
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