During the antebellum and Civil War periods, social contract theory was used by all sides. Enslavers used it to support states’ rights and succession, Whig party moderates upheld the social contract as a symbol of continuity in government, and abolitionists found support in Locke’s theories of natural rights

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Social contract theory is an ancient philosophical idea that states that an individual’s ethical and political obligations relate to an agreement he has with every other individual within a society.

The Social Contract is highly reflected in the Declaration of Independence. This is the idea that people get together and agree to give up some of their freedoms in order to have the government protect their truly important freedoms

Hobbes was a proponent of Absolutism, a system which placed control of the state in the hands of a single individual, a monarch free from all forms of limitations or accountability. Locke, on the other hand, favored a more open approach to state-building.

Thomas Hobbes and John Locke both have made contributions to modern political science and they both had similar views on where power lies in a society. They both are in favor of a popular contract or constitution, which is where the people give the power to govern to their government.

Locke views the state of nature more positively and presupposes it to be governed by natural law. Hobbes emphasises the free and equal condition of man in the state of nature, as he states that ‘nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of mind and body…the difference between man and man is not so considerable