How did the social contract theory influence the formation of the government of the United States? Its important ideas of popular sovereignty, limited government, and individual rights strongly shaped the thinking of those who established American governmental system.

Those who established the American government reluctantly agreed that the only way to establish a new state would be through military force.

The British colonies had been formed under a social contract, so the founders of the new U. S. government rejected it completely when they formed the new government.

The founders of the U. S. government believed strongly in the divine right of kings, but they wanted to use some of the ideas of the social contract theory as well.