米国大学院入試レベル【意味(訳)を教えてください】
すみません。下記の英文の意味を教えてください。
Over and against the view of the sate as the product of a 'contract' among individuals, whose 'rights' exist prior to that contract, and constitute the standard by which at every stage the just claim of society on the indivudual is to be tested, he develops the conception of the individual as himself the product of society, born to an inheritance of rights and of reciprocal duties, and , in the last resort, owing these concrete rights to convention and prescription.
また、下記の文法がどうなっているのかもさっぱり分かりません。
constitute the standard by which at every stage the just claim of society on the indivudual is to be tested,
every state the just claim of societyの動詞は?
日々受験勉強しているものです。
すみませんが、よろしくお願いいたします!