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A valid contract requires the consent of all parties who are subject to its terms. That's a fundamental principle of tort law. The Constitution is therefore not a contract.Not social Contracts; your view is a myth. Only a majority of the States was necessary.Only capital Contracts have such requirements; socialism embodies this concept:A contract requires consent from both parties. When did I ever consent to any "social contract?" Just admit the social contract is a myth before I spend the next 100 posts beating you up about it.
Wrong, ignoramus. All contracts require consent from all parties they impose terms on. Your mortgage required your consent. Your revolving credit accounts required your consent. You cable service required your consent. Your auto loan required you consent. Getting treated at a hospital requires your consent.
This addresses the rest of your myth:Nothing is more certain than the indispensable necessity of government, and it is equally undeniable, that whenever and however it is instituted, the people must cede to it some of their natural rights in order to vest it with requisite powers.
The Federalist No. 40
On the Powers of the Convention to Form a Mixed Government Examined and Sustained
The fallacy you committed is known as the "appeal to authority." Madison was a smart man, but he wasn't infallible. On this issue he erred. That being said, even if it were true, that still wouldn't prove the existence of a social contract.
A social Contract is not a tort law, but a fundamental law.
It's a fairy tail. It's the way demagogues justify their rule.