The Social Contract Tradition
Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau derive the state from an agreement made out of a stateless condition, and disagree about what that condition is like
Planned, not yet written
This rung already has its place in the Political Philosophy ladder and a fixed job in the order. The prose is what is missing. Writing it out of sequence would break the guarantee that nothing here uses a term before an earlier article defines it.
Will definesocial contractstate of natureconsenttacit consentHobbesian sovereigngeneral will
Assumesstatepolitical authoritylegitimacynatural rights