1. Social Contracts
Mrs. Oloya

2. Social Contract
An actual or hypothetical agreement between the people and their rulers
Defines the responsibilities and roles of each

3. Gov’t rests on the agreement of the governed
3 Social Theories
Hobbes
w/out society, mankind would take for himself (solitary and brutish)
Gov’t has absolute power
Rousseau
Gov’t rests on the agreement of the governed
Locke
Law of nature protects life and property
Hobbes and Locke
If gov’t violates contract = rebellion
Locke and Rousseau
Moral and civic obligation to uphold contract
Rousseau and Hobbes
Mankind born w/out sense of right and wrong
All Three
Individuals agree to give up freedoms in exchange for gov’t protecting their lives and property