WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -social contract, in political philosophy, an actual or hypothetical compact, or agreement, between the ruled or between the ruled and their rulers, defining the rights and duties of each.

Detailed explanation-2: -Locke believed that a government’s legitimacy came from the consent of the people they governed.

Detailed explanation-3: -What is a social contract? A social contract is an implicit agreement between the people and their government about what each side provides to the other. The terms of the agreement can vary widely.

Detailed explanation-4: -Locke saw the role of government as protecting the individual rights of the people and believed that governments exist only to serve the needs of the people.

Detailed explanation-5: -Having created a political society and government through their consent, men then gain three things which they lacked in the State of Nature: laws, judges to adjudicate laws, and the executive power necessary to enforce these laws.