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Social Contract: Interpretation and Misinterpretation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2009

Peter McCormick
Peter McCormick
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University of British Columbia
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Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , March 1976 , pp. 63 - 76
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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique 1976

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1 See, for example, Walzer, Michael, Obligations: Essays on Disobedience, War and Citizenship (Cambridge, Mass 1970), x.Google Scholar

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10 The phrase is from Dunn, The Political Thought of John Locke.

11 See, for example, the discussion in Sabine, G.H., A History of Political Theory (London, 3rd ed., 1961)Google Scholar, chap. xxi. The discussion in this article is based on the LLA translation of the Prolegomena to the Laws of War and Peace

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