Among the Bribesmen

Michael Wilkerson writes:

In Uganda and other developing countries, governments who claim to be democratic tend to discard either by intention or by ignorance the social contract theory on which modern democracy is based. The idea, first propounded by philosophers Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean Jacques Rousseau, is that government enters into a contract with its constituents where by taking power it agrees to protect their rights. If it fails then it has breached the contract and the people have the right to overthrow the government and find a new one.