The Pros And Cons Of Social Contract

A social contract is an agreement among members of a society to cooperate for social

benefits. For example one must sacrifice some individual freedoms for the betterment of

the society. Although social contract affects many aspects of government and life such

as, how one is viewed as a citizen, how the economy functions, and property rights.

These all fall under the rules of social contract on how they must be carried out. It is the

base of how our society and government function. Also each political ideology has there

beliefs on how the social contract will function within our government system.

Their has always been a debate through out time on who is a citizen and who can

become a citizen and how. Liberals …show more content…
They also believed that this action

would weaken the capitalist economy. Therefor, they believed that citizenship should be

granted only to certain qualified people. Once the government granted someone

citizenship they would then have a short list of citizen rights as well as only placing

minimal demands on citizens.

Liberals were the first political ideology to realize the importance of free markets for

structuring communities. If a group does not have any structure then it will completely

fall apart. John Locke laid the groundwork for liberals to endorse free markets and

capitalism by the claim that people have property rights. Since liberals believed that

individuals are the rightful owners of their own labor and goods then they have the rights

to them. The basic structures of free markets play a role in private property and the

division of labor in manufacturing goods and the process of supply and demand. A free

market also creates economic activity and the production of material goods that people

want to buy. Liberals also stress capitalism and limited representative government