two contracts if men were objects for which the social contract was frecessitated that is to create positive law establish a known judge and to create an authority to enforce just decisions the society in its corporate capacity established the government and authorised it to make positive laws consistent with the law of nature appoint impartial judges to decide disputes and to enforce their decisions there were thus two contracts according to locke though he did not say so explicitly the first was a social contract hich brshed into being the civil society or the state the second was a governmental contract when society in its corporate capacity established a government and selected a ruler to remove the inconveniences or illondition