in the US. Modern Anglo-American law, like European civil law, is based on a will theory of contract, according to which all terms of a contract are binding on the parties because they chose those terms for themselves. This was less true when Hobbes wrote Leviathan; at that time more importance was attached to consideration, meaning a mutual exchange of benefits necessary to the formation of a valid contract, and most contracts had implicit terms that arose from the nature of the contractual relationship rather than from the choices made by the parties. Accordingly, it has been argued that social contract theory is more consistent with the contract law of the time of Hobbes and Locke than with the contract law of our time and that certain features in the social contract which seem anomalous to us, such as the belief that we are bound by a contract formulated by our distant ancestors, would not have seemed as strange to Hobbes' contemporaries as they do to us. See also Mandate of Heaven Classical republicanism Consent Consent of the governed Constitution Constitutionalism Self determination Contract Epicurean ethics Federalism Mandate (politics) Mayflower Compact Monarchomachs The Racial Contract Rights of Man Right of rebellion School of Salamanca Social capital Social cohesion Social Contract (Britain) - British Labour Party policy involving trade-offs between employment conditions and social welfare Social disintegration Social Justice in the Liberal State Social rights (social contract theory) Social solidarity Societal collapse Consent theory Crito – dialogue by Plato Juan de Mariana References Further reading Ankerl, Guy. Towards a Social Contract on a Worldwide Scale: Solidarity contracts. Research series. Geneva: International Institute for Labour Studies [Pamphlet], 1980, . Carlyle, R. W. A History of mediæval political theory in the West. Edinburgh London: W. Blackwood and sons, 1916. Falaky, Faycal (2014). Social Contract, Masochist Contract: Aesthetics of Freedom and Submission in Rousseau. Albany: State University of New York Press. Gierke, Otto Friedrich Von and Ernst Troeltsch. Natural Law and the Theory of Society 1500 to 1800. Translated by Sir Ernest Barker, with a Lecture on "The Ideas of Natural Law and Humanity", by Ernst Troeltsch. Cambridge: The University Press, 1950. Gough, J. W.. The Social Contract. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1936. Harrison, Ross. Hobbes, Locke, and Confusion's Empire: an Examination of Seventeenth-Century Political Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 2003. Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. 1651. Locke, John. Second Treatise on Government 1689. Pettit, Philip. Republicanism: A