Locke held that divine sanction underwrites all social bonds

Evidence

On this point both Doria who was, as far as I know, a good Catholic and Genovesi, who had once hoped to hold a chair in theology, would have been in broad agreement with Locke’s claim that once you remove God from the picture, ‘neither faith [fides], nor agreement, nor oaths, the bonds [vincula] of human society, can be stable and sacred’ (quoted in Dunn 1985: 43). — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1803

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s trust framework: divine sanction as an ultimate, non-observable guarantor—contrasting with observable-constraint accounts of trust like Hardin’s.