Question

What is Social Contract theory about? Why Social Contract theory was valued as the beginning of the end of Divine Right?

Answer 1

Social contract theory is that people who live together in a society come together make an agreement that establish moral and political obligations are met by forming a society which is called as government. Here people will elect their leader and he will protect them and their rights. Social contract theory main reason which ended the divine right and told that all people bare equal.

Before social contract theory was established there were kings and queens who rule the place and after them their children will rule. These kings and queens think that God have given right for them to rule which is a divine right for them. After social contract theory came into exitexist there is a government which is formed by the people and rulers are elected by the people. There are no kings and queens to rule only people are they.