Polity Atlas
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Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary (includes "Of the Original Contract", first published 1748), ed. Eugene F. Miller

David Hume · Liberty Fund · 1987

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David Hume

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DisputedCritics argue that the classical social contract is a historical fiction and that it conceals domination: Hume denied any actual original contract, Pateman argued that it presupposes a sexual contract, and Mills that it presupposes a racial contract.