Thomas Hobbes Social Contract Analysis

Thomas Hobbes is now broadly viewed as one of a smaller group of truly extraordinary political thinkers, whose major work was the Leviathan rivals in meaning the political writings of Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, and Rawls. Hobbes is most known for his for his early and elaborate development of what has come to be known as “social contract theory”, the method of justifying political principles or arrangements by appeal to the agreement that would be made among suitably situated rational, free, and equal persons. He is most famous for using his theory on the social contract to submit that human beings should submit to an absolute—undivided and unlimited—sovereign power (Lloyd, 2014) Hobbes wanted to ascertain the clear values for the construction of a civil organization that would not be subject to destruction from within. Hobbes maintains the ideology that people should look at their government as having absolute authority, while arguing that the government has absolute power he reserves the idea that we have the liberty of disobeying some of our government's instructions. He argues that subjects retain a

right of self-defense against the sovereign power, giving them the right to disobey or resist when their lives are in danger (Lloyd, 2014).
Jean-Jacques Rousseau In "The Social Contract" of 1762, he presented his personal extra idea of the social contract, his over dramatic opening line was “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. One man thinks himself the master of others, but remains more of a slave than they" Rousseau appealed that the state of nature was a primitive and ruthless situation, without law or morality, which humans purposely left for the benefits and necessity of cooperation (Bertram, 2012). From his works he laid claim of the vast disparity that the original state was regarded as a kind of public agreement, but a defective one that made the proposition of the rich and powerful to trick the overall populace and introduce disparity as a central piece of human society. Rousseau felt that reconciliation is necessary because people in society could no longer just depend on themselves. He felt that society could no longer depend on themselves to supply their needs. So they needed to become interdependent. People need are depended on the co-operation of others (Bertram, 2015).
John Locke is considered one of the most powerful of the political thinkers of the contemporary age.

In his writings the Two Treatises of Government, Locke sheltered the idea that people are by nature free and equivalent against claims that God had made all people naturally submissive to a sovereign state. He argues the idea that people have rights, such as the right to life, liberty, and property, which have a groundwork sovereign of the laws of any specific civilization. Locke used the idea that all men are indeed free by nature and equal as part of the reasoning for understanding valid political government as the result of a social contract where people in the state of nature in theory transfer some of their rights to the government in order to better ensure the stable, comfortable enjoyment of their lives, liberty, and property (Tuckness,

2012).
Rousseau policies I would say are being reflected in today public policy by government programs that are meant to help those how cannot survive economically on their own. They are dependent on other to make ends meet and survive. I would use and example like the medical assistance program that help those who cannot afford health care.
Locke is still influencing our policies based on the ideas that we all have the rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These laws cannot be taken away from us they God given.
Hobbes influence would be through protest even though we should submit to a government we have the right to stand up against them as well