The Contract. These conditions were really intolerable and could be left to continue indefinitely. Men yearned for peace and security of life property and in a bid to escape from the misery and horrors of their condition, they covenanted among themselves to form a civil society "Commonwealth" which would give to each individual person security of and property. They, accordingly, agreed to surrender their natural rights the hands of a common superior and to obey his commands. The covenant of each with all and of all with each. Each man said to every man:
"I authorise and give up my right of governing myself to this man this assembly of men, on this condition, that thou give up thy right to him authorise all his actions in like manner.... This is the generation of that Leviathan, or rather (to speak more reverently) of that Mortal God, to we owe under the immortal God, our peace and defence.