Contract, Sovereign, Anarchism

As has been previously discussed, the Citizen-Sovereign contract of the main Contractarian models, is derived from Citizen-Citizen consent.  The analysis thus exposes the actual function of the Sovereign in these models--to enforce and adjudicate the latter stratum.  However, Proudhon's excising of the Sovereign in his Anarchistic variation of Contractarianism does not follow necessarily.  For, whether or not an independent party is required to perform those functions depends on whether or not the parties to a contract are themselves capable of effectively self-policing, which is no simple problem.  And, if they are not, then his Anarchistic model requires some accommodation of enforcement and adjudication, in which parties concede sovereignty to what that might entail.  So, the appeal of Proudhon's vision may be no more than superficial.