What is a way to describe the social contract theory of government?

Answer 1

A government that claims authority granted them by the "will of the people" yet in turns grants those very same people rights, certain rights, that can be taken away by the very same government. It is a social construct where the collectives rights claim supremacy over the rights of the individual. The government that follows is one form of tyranny or another. Hitler was elected democratically, made dictator by "the will of the people". The United Soviet Socialist Republic which was the "will of the people" placed the iron hand of Vladimir Lenin as their dictator and later the "will of the people" demanded Stalinism. The French who incubated and concocted much of this "social contract theory" went through many mindless and destructive revolutions, writing and rewriting constitutions, throwing away the older attempts like it was toilet paper until they finally created a constitution that granted rights to the people and found the authority to do this through the "will of the people". France now prohibits strange and scary ideas because the "will of the people" have demanded it, they ban burkas because the "will of the people" have demanded it, they are the government of France.

The thing about contracts is that in order for them to be valid all parties must acknowledge and agree to the terms of the contract. Inferred tacit or implicit agreement is a convenient excuse for usurpation of power. If you haven't signed any social contract make sure somebody else didn't sign for you and avoid signing any kind of contract with governments, it's much like frogs who agree to transport scorpions across the river. Both parties are doomed under this agreement.

Answer 2

Rousseau speaks out against a monarch government