Editing Social contract (section)

==Further reading==
* Ankerl, Guy. ''Towards a Social Contract on a Worldwide Scale: Solidarity contracts. Research series''. Geneva: International Institute for Labour Studies [Pamphlet], 1980, {{ISBN|92-9014-165-4}}.
* Carlyle, R. W. ''A History of mediæval political theory in the West''. Edinburgh London: W. Blackwood and sons, 1916.
* Falaky, Faycal (2014). ''Social Contract, Masochist Contract: Aesthetics of Freedom and Submission in Rousseau''. Albany: State University of New York Press. {{ISBN|978-1-4384-4989-0}}
* Gierke, Otto Friedrich Von and Ernst Troeltsch. ''Natural Law and the Theory of Society 1500 to 1800.'' Translated by Sir Ernest Barker, with a Lecture on "The Ideas of Natural Law and Humanity", by Ernst Troeltsch. Cambridge: The University Press, 1950.
* Gough, J. W.. ''The Social Contract''. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1936.
* Harrison, Ross. ''Hobbes, Locke, and Confusion's Empire: an Examination of Seventeenth-Century Political Philosophy''. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
* [http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/hobbes/leviathan-contents.html Hobbes, Thomas. ''Leviathan''. 1651.]
* Locke, John. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20070304114414/http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/locke/locke2/locke2nd-a.html Second Treatise on Government]'' 1689.
* {{cite encyclopedia |last1=Narveson |first1= Jan |author-link1= Jan Narveson |last2= Trenchard |first2=David |editor-first=Ronald |editor-last=Hamowy |editor-link=Ronald Hamowy |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism |chapter= Contractarianism/Social Contract |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=yxNgXs3TkJYC |year=2008 |publisher= [[SAGE Publishing|SAGE]]; [[Cato Institute]] |location= Thousand Oaks, CA |doi= 10.4135/9781412965811.n66|isbn= 978-1412965804 |oclc=750831024| lccn = 2008009151 |pages=103–05 }}
* Pettit, Philip. ''Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government''. NY: Oxford U.P., 1997, {{ISBN|0-19-829083-7}}, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997
* Pufendorf, Samuel, James Tully and Michael Silverthorne. ''Pufendorf: On the Duty of Man and Citizen according to Natural Law. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought''. Cambridge University Press 1991.
* Rawls, John. ''A Theory of Justice'' (1971)
* Riley, Patrick. "How Coherent is the Social Contract Tradition?" ''Journal of the History of Ideas'' 34: 4 (Oct. – Dec., 1973): 543–62.
* Riley, Patrick. ''Will and Political Legitimacy: A Critical Exposition of Social Contract Theory in Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, and Hegel''. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1982.
* Riley, Patrick. ''The Social Contract and Its Critics'', chapter 12 in ''The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought''. Eds. [[Mark Goldie]] and [[Robert Wokler]]. Vol 4 of ''The Cambridge History of Political Thought''. Cambridge University Press, 2006. pp.&nbsp;347–75.
* Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080404234937/http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/r/rousseau/jean_jacques/r864s/complete.html The Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right] '' (1762)
* Scanlon, T. M. 1998. ''What We Owe To Each Other''. Cambridge, Massachusetts