The Double Contract Tradition

The social contract is going to be between the society and the political entity that will have the power. But first of all, you have to build something called a people. And hobbs needed for his own intellectual purposes, because he had to get away from the possibility, the lingering taint of that choice. He had to collapse the double contract into a sing arrangement. His word for it was a covenant. Covenant being an agreement about the future. If i do it, you'll do it. If you do it, i'll do it - but not in one go. The two sides are the two sides of politics, people and state ment. People and the government, together, through