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Gabriela Belmar-Valencia 13CA 23rd September 2003 Compare the Social Contract Theories of Locke and Rousseau Locke's starting point for his social contract theory is from a state of nature, a stage before civil society where the state does not exist. It is an uncertain climate in which to live as there is nothing to enforce what he calls the Law of Nature. The Law of Nature states that everyone has the right to life, liberty and property. In the state of nature there is no one to enforce the Law of Nature so individuals have the right to take it upon themselves to enforce it leading to an unstable environment. Locke maintains in his theory that a social contract is formed when people give up these individual rights to the sovereign thereby consenting to the rule of the state. It is the state's duty to enforce the Law of Nature, protecting the...

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