section_path: Natural law/Mutual agreement
section_name: Mutual agreement
paragraph_text: Mutual agreement
  
  Advocates of the social contract say that justice is derived from the mutual agreement of everyone; or, in many versions, from what they would agree to under hypothetical conditions including equality and absence of bias. This account is considered further below, under ' Justice as Fairness '. The absence of bias refers to an equal ground for all people involved in a disagreement (or trial in some cases).