 The second pact follows the selection (via the pragmatic expedient of majority vote; see Pasquino 2010, Schwartzberg 2008) of the specific form of state to be instituted (monarchy, aristocracy, or democracy), and through it each citizen of the future state subjects himself to the specific governing agent thereby established. It is needed to prevent the random defection and individual exceptionalism that threaten all pre-civil agreements (DJN VII.2.3, 10), including the first contract. At this stage or level, the individual contractors unite their wills through separate promises of obedience to a new moral persona equipped with distinctive (i.e., not simply transferred) rights and obligations, and capable of using their combined strength to discipline, compel, and thus govern effectively (DJN VII.2.5, 3.4, 8.5; cf. VI.1.12; Boucher 1998, Skinner 2002). Civil subjection is analogous to herilic subjection or slavery, though more focused in intent, more limited in scope, and – because of reciprocal promises between governors and governed – potentially sublatable in narrowly defined and (thinks Pufendorf) avoidable circumstances (DJN VII.3.1, 2.10; Seidler 1996). Moreover, in combining a title to command with the strength to sanction or compel, it also recalls the general structure and rationale of the moral obligation that enjoins humans to constitute it in the first place (cf. DJN VII.3.1, 2.13; I.6.9, 6.12; and Section 3.2 above).