it work. The members of society are the contract. For Locke the members of a society are parties of the contract. Government is an agent for society, government still is not part of society, but society is above government. This is the exact opposite for Hobbes, as I said earlier. Hobbes fears anarchy, thus he wants government/sovereign to be above society. For Locke if an agent acts unaccordingly then the agent's right to act as your agent is dissolved; it has acted outs side your trust and on your behalf, thus this means it is dissolved. In terms of looking at our current political system, I feel that natural rights are bases for our system, at least to a certain extent. If you look at Locke and his ideas about the right to life and right to property, then yes, there is that part of his theory in our system today. In contrast though, I don't necessarily remember ever signing into this system we have today. I don't remember actually agreeing to a social contract, although, I suppose that our system has to work on implied consent. Which means that there is a silent consent to agree to that form of government, if you don't disagree then there fore you must agree. I think that Hobbes and Locke's view of social obligation is simple. Hobbe's feels that as long as government is doing its job for you then everything is going good. You don't worry about your neighbor or anyone else. If their life is being threatened then that is their problem, your worries only go as far as your family. As for Locke, he is more logical I think; he says that if government is threatening someone else then what is stopping that government from threatening you. Locke is more worried about tyranny, were Hobbes is more worried about anarchy. They both say that if your government is doing its job you don't have the social authority or obligation to dismiss it, don't fix what is not broken. I think that Hobbes has a much more strict idea of social ob...
