The social contract, a theory, or many, that formulated the modern state, replace family, religion, community, the social structure that once protected the individual from the old state. Anarchy? You really don't have a clue what social contract is, yet you keep bringing it up.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
Social contract is a theory, or set of theories posited by the likes of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau. Attempts to implement it in, say, the Constitution, do not make it not a theory.
According to Rousseau "Man is born free and everywhere is in chains." Those chains are the old social order, the social order that existed right up until the late Middle Ages. The social order of family, religion, community. The social order the social contract aims to free man from, to replace.
Last edited by Chris; 01-12-2020 at 11:31 AM.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler