The social contract obligates individuals to follow the sovereign's commands from "summary" of Hobbes: Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
In the Commonwealth, individuals have agreed to surrender their natural rights and submit to the authority of the sovereign. This agreement, known as the social contract, binds every citizen to obey the commands of the sovereign. The sovereign, whether a monarch or an assembly, is the embodiment of the collective will of the people and is entrusted with the power to make and enforce laws for the common good. By entering into the social contract, individuals acknowledge that their own self-interest must be subordinated to the interests of the community as a whole. They agree to relinquish their right to act according to their own judgments and instead defer to the decisions of the sovereign. In return, the sovereign is responsibl...
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