"We must now fear the person who obeys the law more than the one who breaks it." (MacDonald) Discuss.
Essentially the reasoning behind the social contract is the same for most authors; it is the creation of Sovereign for the purpose of protecting the individual's interests. However, there are many discrepancies between the continuation of the relationship between the citizen of the state and the Sovereign. For Hobbes the social contract is of a perpetual nature, and cannot be revised, for Locke this was not the case, instead it was thought that if the Sovereign discontinued to fulfil its purpose in defending the individual's interests the social contract was breached and the individual had the right to deny the Sovereign's authority. Authors since tend to fall into either the Hobbes group or the Locke group, Rousseau's opinion falls within the latter believing the governed were free to disobey and establish a new political contract if they did not feel the Sovereign is......
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