<P> 31 . Natural justice is a pledge of reciprocal benefit, to prevent one man from harming or being harmed by another . </P> <P> 32 . Those animals which are incapable of making binding agreements with one another not to inflict nor suffer harm are without either justice or injustice; and likewise for those peoples who either could not or would not form binding agreements not to inflict nor suffer harm . </P> <P> 33 . There never was such a thing as absolute justice, but only agreements made in mutual dealings among men in whatever places at various times providing against the infliction or suffering of harm . </P> <P> Quentin Skinner has argued that several critical modern innovations in contract theory are found in the writings from French Calvinists and Huguenots, whose work in turn was invoked by writers in the Low Countries who objected to their subjection to Spain and, later still, by Catholics in England . Francisco Suárez (1548--1617), from the School of Salamanca, might be considered an early theorist of the social contract, theorizing natural law in an attempt to limit the divine right of absolute monarchy . All of these groups were led to articulate notions of popular sovereignty by means of a social covenant or contract, and all of these arguments began with proto - "state of nature" arguments, to the effect that the basis of politics is that everyone is by nature free of subjection to any government . </P>

Who wrote the social contract that outlined the ideal relationship