a real "social contract"

[KJM]

What if someone had to sign an actual contract with the government in order to have full citizenship?

 

[KJM]

Anyone?


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[Berra]

What should it say?

 

[Riain]

Would the govt stick to it's side of the bargin?

 

[mattw101]

I imagine some people wouldn't be too pleased about it. Depends on what it actually says though (obviously.)

 

[Berra]

Isn't feodalism closest to a formal social contract?

 

[Sachyriel]

Non-disclosure Agreement of the Canadian Federal Government and Canadian Citizen _[name here]_:

1. No seceding if you speak French.
2. No giving away secrets of Canadarm, Maple Syrup, Hockey Training, or other National Secrets.
3. Native Peoples may desecrate your land.

 

[rcduggan]

what would the contract contain?

 

[Fellatio Nelson]

Isn't feodalism closest to a formal social contract?

Hardly mutual. More "do this, peasant", cos you can't leave the estate and I can do things to you as I want.

 

[Berra]

Hardly mutual. More "do this, peasant", cos you can't leave the estate and I can do things to you as I want.

Sign or be chopped to pices by my axmen. Or if I'm nice, driven to barbarian country. Not unlike the crazier suggestions in the social contract tread in chat.

 

[KJM]

what would the contract contain?

I suppose it would mostly be about the rights and obligations of both the government and the citizen. I really haven't given that part much thought.

 

[mattw101]

Hardly mutual. More "do this, peasant", cos you can't leave the estate and I can do things to you as I want.

In theory, it was supposed to be a two way obligation. Strong emphasis on theory.