Do not confuse this social contract with a written document of law. The social contract exists in all societies from the most primitive to the most advanced. It is nothing more than the union of human beings tied together in a cooperative bond we call society. The most elemental and basic form of this contract in any society is the marriage between a man and a woman. As it is in this type of social contract, so it is in all others.
Government is nothing more than the formalization of the social contract itself.
Instead of an unconscious implicit agreement it is an explicit formal one. This observation should lead us to conclude that the State has two equal purposes. The first is to provide a collective will and strength for services for its citizens for their common good. Services which they would be unable to accomplish as individuals acting solely on their own. The second is to protect the security and the individual civil rights of each and every citizen.