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1651, the philosopher, thomas hobbes, offered the theory of the social contract. He saw it as a Political Community, in which all of its members submitted themselves to an absolute sovereign, in exchange for their security. A generation before hobbes, however, the pilgrims at cape cod had drafted their own social contract. They called it a covenant. In the presence of god, whose signatories pledged to themselves, not to Thomas Hobbess but to laws that they themselves had written the mayflower compact reaffirmed one of the fundamental ideas of the magna carta. Namely, that no Political Society could flourish without respect for the rule of law. But it went further. It insisted upon the establishment of just and equal laws. Laws that would apply without discrimination to all the members of the Political Community. The drafters of the mayflower compact, their freedom and their security would not depend upon an allpowerful monarch. Instead, it would depend on their ability to rule themselv
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