COMM 2273 Lecture Notes - Lecture 54: Strake Jesuit College Preparatory, Sovereign People
10 Feb 2020
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At social contract: first, the concept of a "social contract" is convenient fiction, hume:1. Consent of the governed is the ideal foundation on which a government can rest, but the government wasn"t founded like that hume again: 2. My intention here is not to exclude the consent of the people from being one just foundation of government where it has place. It is surely the best and most sacred of any. I only contend that it has very seldom had place in any degree and never almost in its full extent. And that therefore some other foundation of government must also be admitted: second, any valid contract must be voluntarily agreed to. However, social contracts are not agreed to by all those whom the contracts affect. For example, when the u. s. was formed no slaves, native americans or women were allowed any say in the formation of the laws within its territory.
