Hobbes is one of the representative theorists of modern social con-tract theory,and two interpretations with different purports have arisen around the state-creating pact:contemporary contractualist and contextualist approach.This paper relies primarily on the second interpretation to explore the question of the state-creat-ing pact arising from the differences between Hobbes's earlier and later writings.The paper asserts that Hobbes's state-creating pact is one that combines political union with the duty of obedience,but that the early writings imply concord prior to union,which amounts to the conclusion that the original form of government is democracy and is expressed in the form of the doctrine of popular sovereignty.Hobbes eliminates the concept of the People through the authorized version of the contract theory in Levi-athan.By promising to submit to the commonwealth of England and reinterpreting the Norman Conquest,Hobbes's contract theory also accommodates commonwealth by acquisition.
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