Frederick Pollock, Hobbes and Locke: The Social Contract in English Political Philosophy, Journal of the Society of Comparative Legislation, Vol. 9, No. 1 (1908), pp. 107-112 ...

Locke is best known as the inspiration of the American Revolution, with his justification of the right to rebel if the sovereign or government violated the terms of the “social contract ...

John Locke, the champion of life, liberty and property, came up with the idea of individual supremacy and limited government in his magnum opus book, Two Treatises of Government (1689).

John Locke, Lost’s spiritual-questing outdoorsman, finally lived up to his name last night, offering his people a new social contract. But as with most contracts, you really gotta read the fine ...

This article critically analyzes Carole Pateman's novel and provocative reading of social contract theory in her now-classic work, The Sexual Contract. Pateman posits the existence of a sexual ...