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		Turing_Machine on March 21, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon M... The contract law behind buying a loaf of bread is well-codified and settled. The term "social contract" means whatever the person using the term wants it to mean. Not the same thing. At all.

Iftheshoefits on March 21, 2014 [–]

If it's well-codified and settled then you'll have absolutely no problem providing a complete, and completely uncontroversial, version of it.

Turing_Machine on March 22, 2014 | [–]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Commercial_Code

Enjoy.

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