...and the extent of their power. Properly understood, our social relations run much deeper than that. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional...than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico, or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest,...

...emerges almost as a religious doctrine has induced me to overcome my hesitation over quoting it in full: Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts...than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, callico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest,...

...in Frage zu stellen, wird im Folgenden zu behandeln sein. 8 ba) NATUR UND VERTRAGSTHEORIE BEI BURKE "Society is, indeed, a contract. Subordinate contracts...pleasure; but the state ought not to be considered äs nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco,...

...tendency to dissolve society into a set of "subordinate contracts" made at the pleasure of individuals: "the state ought not to be considered as nothing better...than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico, or tobacco ... to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved...

...social contract, has never been more eloquently expressed, even by Cicero, than in the Reflections: Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts...than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco ... to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by...

...and state. For Burke, these two are virtually the same, as illustrated by the following statement: Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts...interest may be dissolved at pleasure — but the slate ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper...

...than just a discrete exchange of specified performances among parties who are otherwise uninvolved: Society is, indeed, a contract. Subordinate contracts...than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest,...

...a compact of a special kind. As Burke wrote in one of the most famous passages in the Reflections; Society is, indeed, a contract. Subordinate contracts...than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some such other low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest,...

...in Frage zu stellen, wird im Folgenden zu behandeln sein. 8 ha) NATUR UND VERTRAGSTHEORIE BEI BURKE "Society is, indeed, a contract. Subordinate contracts...pleasure; but the state ought not to be considered äs nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco,...

...of opposition to the principle of contract, indeed by ridicule. Society is indeed a contract . . . but the state ought not to be considered as nothing...than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico and tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest,...