How are the The Declaration of Independence and Social Contract Theory similar?

Answer 1

The Declaration of Independence is a social contract. The colonists established a new contract and rejected British rule because it violated the previous contract.

http://www.iep.utm.edu/soc-cont/

http://www.csus.edu/indiv/g/gaskilld/ethics/sct.htm

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/