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The 91 pages that link to Social contract, each with the reason it gives.

• BetrayalNarrower topic: Betrayal often means violating shared obligations that hold a community together.

• Rawlsian justiceNarrower topic: Rawls recasts contract theory as a hypothetical, impartial choice rather than a historical pact.

• VowRelated: Vows show how declared commitments can help sustain shared obligations.

• Cesare BeccariaRelated: Beccaria grounded the state’s right to punish in citizens’ limited transfer of liberty.

• Individual libertyRelated: It frames the trade of some unconstrained action for common rules and protection.

• On LibertyCompared with: Mill’s argument focuses on limits to coercion rather than deriving political authority from consent.

• Political theoryBroader topic: It frames political legitimacy around a people governing themselves through the general will.

• PromiseNarrower topic: Political order can be framed as reciprocal commitments that constrain rulers and citizens.

• Public orderRelated: It frames public order as part of the protection people expect in exchange for political authority.

• LeviathanRelated: Hobbes explains sovereignty as arising when individuals authorize a common power.

• LibertyRelated: It asks what limits on liberty people accept in exchange for collective security and order.

• SocietyRelated: It offers a influential account of how collective order can arise from individuals.

• Winter of DiscontentBroader topic: The Labour government’s specific bargain with unions gave wage restraint a political framework.

• Lysander SpoonerCompared with: Spooner rejected the idea that an unrecorded collective contract could bind individuals without consent.

• Mayflower CompactRelated: The Compact’s mutual promises resemble a social contract, though it was not a modern democratic constitution.

• Two Treatises of GovernmentNarrower topic: The work presents government as an institution formed by people for their common protection.

• Adam FergusonCompared with: His account treats social institutions as historical developments, not simply products of an original agreement.

• DeiocesRelated: Deioces’s subjects reportedly accepted monarchy to escape disorder.

• EthicsRelated: It connects shared standards of conduct to legitimate social cooperation.

• Paternalistic conservatismRelated: Its language of mutual obligations helps explain the tradition's account of political responsibility.

• 18th centuryRelated: It supplied arguments for treating government as accountable to the governed.

• Axiom (general principle)Related: Political arguments can begin from assumptions about rights, consent, and human nature.

• Constitutional economicsRelated: It offers a language for asking whether citizens would accept constitutional rules.

• Democracy in AmericaCompared with: Rousseau’s theory of popular sovereignty offers a contrasting account of collective political authority.

• Émile, or On EducationRelated: Rousseau published this political treatise in the same year as Émile, linking education to his wider account of society.

• Modern philosophyRelated: Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau used contract arguments to rethink the basis of government.

• Stateless societyCompared with: Social-contract theories often use the state to explain political order, a different starting point.

• The Ones Who Walk Away from OmelasRelated: Omelas invites scrutiny of a social order whose benefits depend on an excluded victim.

• DistrustNarrower topic: Political cooperation depends on confidence that others and governing institutions will honor shared rules.

• Jean-Luc NancyCompared with: Nancy resists grounding community in a pact among individuals who exist fully before relation.

• Social philosophyRelated: It models how collective rules might gain legitimacy among those governed by them.

• Anti-statismRelated: Anti-statist arguments challenge whether consent can justify state authority over people who never agreed.

• AporophobiaRelated: Aporophobia raises questions about whether social membership depends on usefulness or reciprocity.

• Enlightenment philosophyRelated: It recast government as a human institution whose legitimacy could be examined.

• Evolution of moralityCompared with: Contract theories explain norms through agreement rather than chiefly through evolutionary history.

• History of ethicsRelated: Contract arguments recast moral and political obligation during early modernity.

• History of liberalismRelated: It supplied a framework for explaining legitimate government through consent.

• History of political scienceRelated: Social-contract arguments shaped modern questions about sovereignty, legitimacy, and political obligation.

• Politics (governance)Related: It frames debates about why political power is justified and what citizens owe one another.

• Right-libertarianismCompared with: Its accounts of consent and obligation expose a central dispute over whether state authority can bind nonconsenting people.

• Secular moralityRelated: It explains moral obligations through mutual agreement rather than divine command.