"The movement of progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract."
— Contract

January 1, 1970

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Sir Henry James Sumner Maine, Ancient Law: Its Connection with the Early History of Society and its Relation to Modern Ideas (2000; reprint of 1861 ed.), p. 100.