What cops are hired to do is to control people who will not abide by the social contract.

Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.

America's 'social contract' is equal opportunity... yet we have failed in achieving that seminal goal.

In our social contract, we have provisions that see to it that you take care of people who need some help.

A group is as healthy as its 'social contract' is clear; a congregation as faithful as its covenant is mutually understood; a pastor as effective as the pastor's and people's commitment to trust and integrity is honored, guarded, and fulfilled.

While I know some women who are stunningly sanguine when they're pregnant, I dissolve into a total mess. What normally appears sturdy turns fragile: the economy, the climate, humanity's baseline social contract.