The social compact, exemplified in the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ...
Subtitle: a lecture delivered before the Franklin Lyceum, at Providence, R. I., November 25, 1842
By: by John Quincy Adams
Publisher: Knowles and Vose, printers
Published: 1842
Place of publication: Providence
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Social contract; Massachusetts
Notes: Cover title.

Remainder of title: With remarks on the theories of divine right of Hobbes and of Filmer, and the counter theories of Sidney, Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau, concerning the origin and nature of government.

Pamphlet, with sprinkled edges.