The second view, which may be called the Social Contract theory proper, regards society as originating in, or based on, an agreement between the individuals composing it. It seems to be found first, rather vaguely, in Richard Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity , from which Locke largely borrowed: and it reappears, in varying forms, in Milton’s Tenure of Kings and Magistrates , in Hobbes’s Leviathan , in Locke’s Treatises on Civil Government , and in Rousseau. The best-known instance of its actual use is by the Pilgrim Fathers on the Mayflower