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 ill condition which necessitated the formation of the civil society or the state the second contract or governmental contract was subordinate to the first inasmuch as government was only a fiduciary power to act for certain end and its authority was confined to securing those ends it was limited moreover to the condition that it was to be used in the exercise of established know laws if the government failed to secure the ends for which it was created and to which it had agreed or did not exercise its authority according the established known laws the community might dismiss it and appoint another government in its place here locke establishes the inherent right of the people to revolt against the authority of the monarch if he ever abused the terms of the contract to which he is a party and ruled arbirtarily ignoring the established known laws made by the representatives of the people