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What Social Contract?
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Social contract or compact. In political philosophy, a term applied to the theory of the origin of society associated chiefly with the names of Hobbes, Locke and Rouseau, though it can be traced back to the Greek Sophists. Rouseau (Contract Social) held that in the pre-social state man was unwarlike and timid. Laws resulted from the combination of men who agreed, for mutual protection, to surrender individual freedom of action. Government must therefore rest on the consent of the governed. ~ Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition (c.1990), page 1390 [Emphasis added]
So, rather than arguing that there is no such thing as a "social contract", [it is, after all, only a "theory"], why not rebut the presumption that you have consented; why not just make it abundantly clear that you do not consent to be a part of any "social contract", and be done with it.
I DO NOT CONSENT TO BE A MEMBER OF YOUR POLITICAL CORPORATION AND I WAIVE ALL MEMBER-ONLY BENEFITS. MY LAW IS THE NATURAL LAW.