Social Contract vs Legal Contract - Key Concepts

Fill-in-the-blank flashcards covering contract elements, social contract theory, Socratic Method, and contrasts between legal vs social contracts.

For a legitimate/legal contract there must be two or more parties of sound mind; legal purpose; offer and acceptance; and __.

Compensation and Performance

In the cocaine example, there was no __ because the activity is illegal.

legal purpose

A verbal agreement can still be a contract if it meets all four parameters; in the Hill Country land example the agreement formed a contract because it included two parties, legal purpose, offer and acceptance, and __.

compensation and performance

A Social Contract is an agreement between two or more to create their , and therefore their government.

society

A Social Contract is usually found in the form of a , yet, just like a legal contract, it does not need to be written.

Constitution

The first person to discuss a Social Contract was in Plato's Dialogue 'Crito'.

Socrates

The Socratic Method involves responding with a rather than giving a direct answer.

question

Socrates argued that he agreed to the Social Contract because he was born and raised in Athens, fought in their army, and did not renounce his citizenship.

Athens'

This is the biggest issue at hand when it comes to the Social Contract v. the Contract.

Legal

In the legal contract, it is explicit; with a Social Contract it is both explicit and .

implicit

The example with Frank, John, and specific performance shows that only a to the contract can be sued for specific performance.

party