A social contract is an agreement that people make that makes up the government. People must give something up to get something in return and in this case is protection that is provided from the government. It keeps people in line, and from doing things that would harm the community. Leaders are necessary so there is not crime and people follow the rules. The leaders keep everyone in line.

Hobbes believed that a social contract was necessary. His belief was that people were selfish. He did not think that the majority of people were kind. This is why Thomas Hobbes thinks that a social contract is needed. Locke had different ideas than Hobbes did about a social contract. While Hobbes wanted the contract to protect people's lives, Locke wanted it to protect rights. Locke also thought that people were good unlike Hobbes did. They also did not agree on amount of authority that the government should be given. Hobbes says unlimited authority but locke says that they should have limited authority. Locke and Hobbes had different views on social contracts.


Making a set of  rules that a community needed to follow was much more difficult than I expexted it to be. There are many things you have to think about that you normally would not. The rules we came up with are as follows. One, three leaders are selected by the people every four years. Don't start wars, finish them! Three, new members are accepted only if they agree to the rules. Four, have reasons for your actions. Five, everyone has equal rights, listen to others' opinions. Six, finally if rules are broken the leaders will choose punishments for people to vote on. It was difficult to come up with these rules because you had to think about so many possibilities and loopholes or flaws in the rules that people could find, and therefore wouldn't technically be breaking the rules if they did do something that was not necessarily allowed. There are many changes to some of the rules that I would make. First is with rule number one. I would say that four leaders will be elected every six months. This way if something happened to any of the rulers, they will still have more. Also by changing rulers more often people will believe they are more a part of the community. I would also reword some of the rules to make them more clear to people who are new to them.